Chris Gayle Bgraphy - Facts, Childhood, Fay Life & Achievements

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• CHRIS GAYLE
• CHRIS GAYLE BGRAPHY

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.

CHRIS GAYLE BGRAPHY

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.

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.