Chris Gayle, cricket's master of the six, clears yet another T20 boundary | Chris Gayle | The Guardian

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• CHRIS GAYLE, CRICKET'S MASTER OF THE SIX, CLEARS YET ANOTHER T20 BOUNDARY
• CHRIS GAYLE
• IN FOC – CHRIS GAYLE’S POWER HTG
• CHRIS GAYLE BE FIRST PLAYER TO SRE 1,000 SIX T20 CRICKET
• CHRIS GAYLE OPTS OUT OF CPL 2022, TURNS FOC TO 6IXTY
• CHRIS GAYLE
• MOST SIX T20 CRICKET: ‘UNIVERSE BOSS’ CHRIS GAYLE TOPS THE LIST

CHRIS GAYLE, CRICKET'S MASTER OF THE SIX, CLEARS YET ANOTHER T20 BOUNDARY

The Rajasthan Royals played the Kgs XI Punjab Abu Dhabi last Friday, and while they were at Chris Gayle h his 1, 000th six T20 cricket. This is Tyagi’s first season the IPL, so he didn’t know better than to try bowlg a cht-high bouncer when Gayle was 85 not out at the ath.

In the end, Joa Archer got Gayle for 99 the next over, bowled wh a leg-stump yorker.

Gayle was so angry about that he tossed his bat away to square leg, then regaed his ol, and ngratulated Archer by slappg his hand as he walked off.

CHRIS GAYLE

” Gayle said afterwards. Gayle hasn’t jt h more six than any other batsman T20 cricket, he’s h 307 more six than any other batsman T20 cricket.

If you take all the six MS Dhoni has h his reer and add them together wh all the six Virat Kohli has h his reer and then throw all the six Yuvraj Sgh has h his reer, you still don’t e close to Gayle’s total has sred more ns six alone than the vast majory of players make any way their entire T20 reers. Gayle is so far ahead that you have to start measurg him agast entire untri.

So long as Gayle’s playg, ’s always six o’clock somewhere the that Gayle also holds the rerd for htg the most six all forms of ternatnal cricket (534 Tt match, one-day match, and T20s for the Wt Indi), ’s jt possible that he’s h more six than anyone else the history of the game, that he is, fact, the sixit cricketer who ever lived. But T20 has been played an era when each and every ball’s rerd, which means that we n list all of Gayle’s six, om the very first, a lofted on-drive off Gee O’Brien for Jamai agast Bermuda the Stanford 20/20 2006, to his 1, 001st, a swat over the leg-si off a full toss om the ball before Archer got him out last favour were the three he took off Brett Lee at the Oval durg the World T20 back 2009, one pulled out of the ground and over the road to the Archbishop Tenison’s school, another on to the top of the Bedser Stand, a third to the stands at midwicket.

IN FOC – CHRIS GAYLE’S POWER HTG

Gayle is 41 now, and has grey streaks his beard. 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.

CHRIS GAYLE BE FIRST PLAYER TO SRE 1,000 SIX T20 CRICKET

- 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.

CHRIS GAYLE OPTS OUT OF CPL 2022, TURNS FOC TO 6IXTY

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.

CHRIS GAYLE

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.

Gayle's aversn to nng on and twos - more nspicuo later his reer - shouldn't startle you as much as his reliance on them, rotatg the strike early his ngs before unleashg a theatril, sometim unstoppable barrage of kg-sized six all around. Even as he belted rerds all over the place, Gayle'e mountg jury wo meant his stts wh the Wt Indi natnal si have bee rarer.

MOST SIX T20 CRICKET: ‘UNIVERSE BOSS’ CHRIS GAYLE TOPS THE LIST

Come to the Banglash Premier League, Gayle played for Rangpur Rirs the 2017-18 season and won the Player of the Seri award for notchg up the hight number of ns.

Durg Wdi' tour of England 2017, Gayle was relled to the ODI si after a hiat of more than 2.