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CHRIS GAYLE

A thstg Jamain left-hanr, Gayle earned himself a black mark on his first senr tour - to England 2000 - where the new boys were felt to be sufficiently rpectful of their elrs. But a lack of rpect, for opposn bowlers at least, has served Gayle well sce then.

And this era of Twenty20 cricket, Gayle is the batsman who has thrived like no his many strengths, perhaps the biggt one is his outstandg hand-eye ordatn, which allows Gayle to regularly h even good-length liveri for boundari.

He showed early signs of his likg for that format by smashg the first century Twenty20 ternatnals - a 57-ball 117 agast South Ai the World Twenty20 2007 - and when Twenty20 leagu mhroomed the world over and sought ternatnal stars, Gayle was the biggt beneficiary. Gayle's ee-strokg, aggrsive style is obvly bt sued for limed-overs cricket, but that don't mean he hasn't cut as a Tt batsman.

CHRIS GAYLE BGRAPHY

However, Gayle has also shown the abily to bat long perds and the hunger to make big sr.

In 2009 agast Atralia, Gayle batted almost seven-and-a-half hours srg an unbeaten 165 to save the Tt Alai; the very next game, though, he smashed the fifth-fastt Tt century - off 70 balls - to dite that quick-srg remaed his preferred method. Twenty20 cricket seemgly picked Chris Gayle as s ambassador, for he sred the very first hundred the format and now unnttedly owns almost every rerd there is, cludg that profileTwenty20 cricket seemgly picked Chris Gayle as s ambassador, for he sred the very first hundred the format and now unnttedly owns almost every rerd there is, cludg that of the most ns (now 10, 000+), most hundreds, fastt hundred, and most fours and six. Chris Gayle might stand tall at over six feet and wield his bat to make or break T20 leagu, but make no mistake about his affy for Tt cricket.

His absenteeism om Tts later his reer may seem to suggt otherwise but Gayle has racked up 15 Tt hundreds and over 7, 000 ns across 103 match so far, and equently turns up for his many T20 anchis jerseys numbered 333 - his hight First Class sre, which he ma agast Sri Lanka at Galle, to bee only the fourth batsman after Don Bradman, Brian Lara and Virenr Sehwag wh two Tt tripl a lifetime. - Gayle dismissed footwork to a famo cricketg rndancy of his time, and along wh other ntemporary openg batsmen Tillakaratne Dilshan, Virenr Sehwag, and Brendon McCullum later, fashned a battg era characterized by an unreal pennce on hand-eye ordatn and breakneck n-srg across formats. Beg the first cricketer wh hundreds all three formats, Gayle servedly personifi the weight stggle between var cricket formats that stood tensified wh the lnch of IPL 2008.

So 2009, Chris Gayle arrived England after playg seven IPL gam to pta Wt Indi a Tt match at Lord's, a game that his si lost heavily amidst sthg cricism om media and fans alike. Be bee of his growg T20 appete, his never-endg nflicts wh the Wt Indi Cricket Board, or his gradg fns level, Gayle's ternatnal appearanc have gone om few and far between to very ltle off late, wh his foc now on beg a T20 eelancer, not sgularly an era where retirement-age dangeroly seems to hover around thirty-two. Debutg for Wt Indi as a 20-year-old the year 2000, Gayle went on to pta the natnal si, takg over om Ramnarh Sarwan.

He didn't start as an openg batsman, but soon graduated to one, but spe well-timed performanc and a good rerd, doubts over Gayle's technique agast seam and swg have remaed. Come to the more batsman-iendly limed-overs format, and Gayle seems more at home.

If not that, teams have religly relied on short-pched liveri, aimed at his ribs, which Gayle eher top-edg or more often buri ep to the square leg stands.