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Contents:

• THIS DAY THAT YEAR: WHEN CHRIS GAYLE SRED AN UNBEATEN 175 IN IPL
• CHRIS GAYLE RELLECTS THE HISTORIC 175 AGAST PUNE WARRRS INDIA 2013
• RELIVG CHRIS GAYLE'S MURRO 175 THAT STUNNED THE CRICKET WORLD
• GAYLE 175* (66B), RCB W BY 130
• THE GREATT IPL PERFORMANC, NO. 3: CHRIS GAYLE'S 175 NOT OUT AND 2 FOR 5 VS THE PUNE WARRRS
• CHRIS GAYLE RELLS RERD 175 IPL FOR RCB IT WAS LIKE USA BOLT NNG 100M, EVERYTHG STOOD STILL
• CHRIS GAYLE HAD BLASTED RERD-SHATTERG 175 NOT OUT EXACTLY FIVE YEARS AGO
• THE GREATT IPL PERFORMANC, NO. 3: CHRIS GAYLE'S 175 NOT OUT AND 2 FOR 5 VS THE PUNE WARRRS
• WAS GAYLE'S 175* REALLY THAT EXCEPTNAL CRICKETG NTEXT?
• CHRIS GAYLE
• CHRIS GAYLE’S 175: 7 YEARS OF HIGHT RUN SRER IPL HISTORY
• GAYLE’S 175, MCCULLUM’S 158: THE 10 HIGHT SR IPL HISTORYFROM CHRIS GAYLE TO RISHABH PANT, HERE’S A LOOK AT THE 10 HIGHT SR INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE HISTORY. SHREEDA AGGARWALUPDATED: 19 OCT 2020, 7:43 PM ISTIPL (IGNORE) 5 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY
• ON THIS DAY 2013: CHRIS GAYLE MOLISHED PUNE WARRRS BOWLERS TO PRODUCE IPL'S HIGHT DIVIDUAL SRE
• GAYLE 175 HIGHLIGHTS: AN NGS THAT CHANGE THE DYNAMICS OF T20 CRICKET
• ON THIS DAY IPL: FASTT CENTURY RERD BROKEN WH CHRIS GAYLE’S 175*
• ON THIS DAY (APRIL 23): RCB'S HIGH AND LOW IPL; CHRIS GAYLE’S 175, VIRAT KOHLI HURT BY 'WORST BATTG'
• GAYLE 175 SRERD: THE BT OF UNIVERSE BOSS

THIS DAY THAT YEAR: WHEN CHRIS GAYLE SRED AN UNBEATEN 175 IN IPL

© TwterEight years ago, on this very day, Chris Gayle sred an unbeaten 175 ns agast now-funct Pune Warrrs India (PWI) to register the hight dividual sre the Twenty20 cricket. Before Gayle, the honour was wh Brendon McCullum, who had sred 158 for Kolkata Knight Rirs' (KKR) the gural season of the sh-rich league.

"Hight-ever T20 sre (175) Fastt T20 century Most six an ngs #OnThisDay, we all wnsed a #GayleStorm #SaddaPunjab #PunjabKgs #IPL — Punjab Kgs (@PunjabKgsIPL) April 23, 2021The historic moment took place durg the 31st match of IPL 2013. His 175-n knock was laced wh 17 on the Gayle storm, RCB posted 263 ns for the loss of five wickets their 20 overs and the procs beme the first team to cross the mark of 250 ns IPL. Gayle's 175 not out is the hight dividual sre all Twenty20 match, while Royal Challengers' total of 263 is the hight by any team.

CHRIS GAYLE RELLECTS THE HISTORIC 175 AGAST PUNE WARRRS INDIA 2013

) Gayle's century took all of 30 balls, which is four balls quicker than the prev rerd - Andrew Symonds' 34-ball effort for Kent agast Middlex 2004. Over the urse of his ngs, Gayle stck 17 six, the most an ngs Twenty20 match; the prev rerd was 16, by Graham Napier when he sred that unbeaten 152.

RELIVG CHRIS GAYLE'S MURRO 175 THAT STUNNED THE CRICKET WORLD

Among the seven bowlers who bowled to Gayle, Le Wright was the most enomil, gog for only 13 off 16 balls, and bowlg six dots.

GAYLE 175* (66B), RCB W BY 130

Overall, the difference between the ns sred and balls played Chris Gayle's ngs was 109, which is the first stance of the difference beg more than 100 a Twenty20 ngs.

Dilshan was pletely overshadowed, but his partnership of 167 wh Gayle is the hight for the first wicket the IPL, gog past Dwayne Smh and Sach Tendulkar's 163 agast Royals 2012, and the jot fourth-hight for all wickets the IPL. RESULT31st match (D/N), Bengalu, April 23, 2013, Indian Premier LeaguePlayer Of The Match175* (66) & 2/5Royal Challengers Bangalore (20 ovs maximum)BATTING RBM4s6sSRChris Gayle not out 175661021317265.

5 overs (30 balls), Extras 11st Wicket: 50 ns 30 balls (CH Gayle 44, TM Dilshan 10, Ex 1)CH Gayle: 50 off 17 balls (6 x 4, 4 x 6)Royal Challengers Bangalore: 100 ns 7. 5 overs (48 balls), Extras 31st Wicket: 100 ns 48 balls (CH Gayle 89, TM Dilshan 11, Ex 3)CH Gayle: 100 off 30 balls (8 x 4, 11 x 6)Royal Challengers Bangalore: 150 ns 11.

THE GREATT IPL PERFORMANC, NO. 3: CHRIS GAYLE'S 175 NOT OUT AND 2 FOR 5 VS THE PUNE WARRRS

5 overs (73 balls), Extras 61st Wicket: 150 ns 73 balls (CH Gayle 114, TM Dilshan 30, Ex 6)CH Gayle: 150 off 53 balls (11 x 4, 16 x 6)Royal Challengers Bangalore: 200 ns 15. 6 overs (78 balls), Extras 3RCBPWI100%50%100%RCB InngsPWI InngsOver 20 • PWI 133/9Ali Murtaza st †An Karthik b Gayle 5 (4b 1x4 0x6 2m) SR: 125Ishwar Pany b Gayle 0 (2b 0x4 0x6 1m) SR: 0RCB won by 130 nsPowered by Smart StatsInstant answers to T20 qutnsTEAMMWLPTNRRCSK16115220. Durg the show, Gayle rellected the inic knock, which he pulverized the Pune Warrrs' bowlg attack wh his big-htg crentials.

Eventually, I walked back to the middle after the ra subsid and I picked up om where I left off, ” Chris Gayle was quoted as sayg durg the show.

CHRIS GAYLE RELLS RERD 175 IPL FOR RCB IT WAS LIKE USA BOLT NNG 100M, EVERYTHG STOOD STILL

Relivg Chris Gayle’s murro 175 that stunned the cricket world: April 23, 2013 was a day when several cricketg rerds got smashed. It was a day when Christopher Henry Gayle the mardg n mache om Jamai was his most tigerish mood and the woebegone victims were the hapls Pune Warrrs India who was h by the bolt om the blue, that is the Gayle storm! His 175 ns off 66-ball ngs is Chris Gayle thrashed and cimated all of the opposn bowlers mercilsly and reached his 100 30 balls, y you read right, 30 balls!!

Gayle’s 175 not out is the hight dividual sre all Twenty20 match, while Royal Challengers’ total of 263 is the hight by any team. Gayle’s 11 centuri this format is more than twice that of the next-hight, David Warner and McCullum who have five each. RESULT31st match (D/N), Bengalu, April 23, 2013, Indian Premier LeaguePlayer Of The Match175* (66) & 2/5ReportChris Gayle blzed the fastt hundred Twenty20s and the hight sre Twenty20s as Royal Challengers ran up the tallt total Twenty20 historyRoyal Challengers Bangalore 263 for 5 (Gayle 175*) beat Pune Warrrs 133 (Smh 41, Gayle 2-5) by 130 nsSrerd and ball-by-ball tailsChris Gayle n shatter dreams.

CHRIS GAYLE HAD BLASTED RERD-SHATTERG 175 NOT OUT EXACTLY FIVE YEARS AGO

Ask Aaron Fch, the third pta for Pune Warrrs this season, who bowled an over hopg to rtrict Gayle but didn't bowl aga after beg blasted for 29. After Gayle's onslght, there was only gog to be one rult, and further nfirmatn of that arrived when four wickets fell si the first six overs of the Warrrs chase.

THE GREATT IPL PERFORMANC, NO. 3: CHRIS GAYLE'S 175 NOT OUT AND 2 FOR 5 VS THE PUNE WARRRS

Gayle smashed the fastt century the format, brought off 30 balls; ma the hight dividual T20 sre (175 not out); stck the most six by a batsman a T20 ngs (17); helped Royal Challengers Bangalore h the most six for a team a T20 ngs (21) and reach the hight total T20 cricket (263) helplsns of the Warrrs players was wr large on their fac. Le Wright sed wh trepidatn when Virat Kohli took a sgle to give Gayle the strike off his bowlg, Yuvraj jt shook his head as he watched one ball after another sail over the boundary rope and pretend to snatch Gayle's bat at the end of the ngs as he went over to ngratulate only terptn to Gayle's effort was a 33-mute ra terval. 5 helped Gayle that Warrrs bowled to him on a length, allowg him to h through the le and straight, wh mimum effort that masked the immense power behd his strok that cleared the boundary wh ease.

At least two shots cleared the roof, the shot that brought up his century h and rebound back to the lower Gayle was not gog to hold himself back, havg taken 29 off the fifth over om Marsh, was evint his approach to sp when Murtaza was brought on the seventh over. Gayle cid to target the spner wh the turn, slog-sweepg and then smashg him flat for two six, then makg Fch regret the move to brg himself on, hammerg him for four six, all on the on-si.

A rare yorker outsi off om Ashok Dda that Gayle missed was perhaps the only moral victory he afford Warrrs before reachg his century, a landmark he celebrated wh a punch of the glov then kneelg down and raisg his arms. Murtaza may jt have felt he uld slip a relatively quiet over when Gayle had mellowed down, somewhat, after reachg his ton, but Gayle molished those thoughts. Unlike Dilshan at the start, AB Villiers was the domant partner Warrrs' at the ath, thrashg 31 jt eight balls a stand worth played their role helpg Gayle gui the ngs, which he did wh a big se, good-hearted banter wh the Warrrs fielrs durg the rnage, and an animated reactn when he reached his century.

WAS GAYLE'S 175* REALLY THAT EXCEPTNAL CRICKETG NTEXT?

Siddhartha Talya is a senr sub-edor at ESPNcricRCBPWI100%50%100%RCB InngsPWI InngsOver 20 • PWI 133/9Ali Murtaza st †An Karthik b Gayle 5 (4b 1x4 0x6 2m) SR: 125Ishwar Pany b Gayle 0 (2b 0x4 0x6 1m) SR: 0RCB won by 130 nsPowered by Smart StatsInstant answers to T20 qutnsTEAMMWLPTNRRCSK16115220.

Greatt IPL performanc: Chris Gayle's 175 not out vs Pune Warrrs, 2013 (5:44)Chris Gayle reliv his rerd-breakg battg blzkrieg. If someone had told Fch what was to e over the next hour and a half, he might have gathered his bowlers to perform a ra dance; that might have been ls embarrassg than what Chris Gayle end up dog to the 22 centuri Gayle currently has the format, none have been as savagely archetypal as his unbeaten 175 off 66 balls that Pany, the medium-pacer, was makg his IPL but and had bowled two balls before the ra break, both of which were h for boundari by Gayle, drawg nfed, almost dumbfound, looks om Pany at the pch and the batter.

CHRIS GAYLE

Twenty-one me off that over, and marked the start of a petn - Gayle agast himself for how many tim he uld better that managed three tim, startg wh Mchell Marsh's first over, the fifth of the ngs.

That over also took Gayle to a 17-ball took him 13 more liveri to turn 50 to 100, brought up wh a six off Ashok Dda jt before the first strategic time-out at the end of ne overs.

CHRIS GAYLE’S 175: 7 YEARS OF HIGHT RUN SRER IPL HISTORY

Nety-eight of those first 102 ns me off boundari - eight fours and 11 the time between the two landmarks, Gayle acquated himself wh the midwicket boundary as well, urty the weakt possible fence agast him - two overs a row of left-arm Murtaza was the only specialist spner the le-up for the Warrrs, and he was taken for 18 off his first over.

GAYLE’S 175, MCCULLUM’S 158: THE 10 HIGHT SR IPL HISTORYFROM CHRIS GAYLE TO RISHABH PANT, HERE’S A LOOK AT THE 10 HIGHT SR INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE HISTORY. SHREEDA AGGARWALUPDATED: 19 OCT 2020, 7:43 PM ISTIPL (IGNORE) 5 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY

That was the eveng summed up for the Warrrs: their biggt bowlg w was to rce Gayle to a strike rate of jt unr that phase there was no rpe for Murtaza.

That over went for 28 as well, endg wh a six that took Gayle to 150 and had his pta, Virat Kohli, bowg at the other end salute. The only evince that Gayle was a breathg, mortal human me when he showed ncern that a boundary cnched past long-off had bounced over the hoardgs to jure a Murtaza there would be no mercy on humanarian grounds.

Pany would be Gayle's next wicket, bowled wh a yorker of the sort Pany himself hadn't managed to land once earlier the day. By India Today Web Dk: Former Wt Indi batter Chris Gayle relled his stunng 175 for Royal Challengers Bangalore the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2013, sayg the entire cricket aterny stopped to watch the rnage Bengalu. Gayle likened his knock to Usa Bolt's 100m rac, sayg enthralled cricket lovers and that he is glad to be part of IPL h the fastt hundred T20 cricket, a rerd that stands even today as he pummelled the 3-figure sre jt 30 balls.

ON THIS DAY 2013: CHRIS GAYLE MOLISHED PUNE WARRRS BOWLERS TO PRODUCE IPL'S HIGHT DIVIDUAL SRE

Gayle went on to sre 175 not out 66 balls, which is the hight sre the was an imper six-htg mood at the M Chnaswamy Stadium Bengalu as he went after each and every bowler of the now-funct Pune Warrrs' team.

GAYLE 175 HIGHLIGHTS: AN NGS THAT CHANGE THE DYNAMICS OF T20 CRICKET

Gayle and Tilakaratne Dilshan add 167 for the openg wicket but the Sri Lanka batter managed jt 33 ns the stand, watchg the rnage om the other end, more often than not. I WON MOST BATTLES AGAINST PACERSFurthermore, Gayle challenged fast bowlers the world to dispute his claim that he had succeed agast most of the top pacers of his era.

Gayle was a formidable big-hter agast both pace and sp and durg his heyday, the Wt Indi batter took on the bt the bs wh ease.

ON THIS DAY IPL: FASTT CENTURY RERD BROKEN WH CHRIS GAYLE’S 175*

He then went on to register the hight sre the history of the Indian Premier April 23, 2013, Gayle, who was then an tegral part of the Royal Challenegrs Bangalore, smashed an unbeaten 175 after gettg to his hundred off only 30 balls.

In fact, Gayle was the pick of the bowlers, snarg 2/5 off the only over he years later, the player ctn, Gayle went almost unsold. Gayle briefly owned the Orange Cap before went back to Virat Kohli and then to Sanju was first unleashed agast Chennai Super Kgs IPL 2018. After Punjab sneaked through to a narrow four-n w, Gayle was named man-of-the-match and he announced, "Universe Boss is back.

The Afghan leg-spner fought back to snare KL Rahul but his third over went for 27 ns - as many as 26 me om Gayle's bla as the Jamain hammered four succsive six to leave Rashid batsman has sred as many IPL hundreds as Gayle.

ON THIS DAY (APRIL 23): RCB'S HIGH AND LOW IPL; CHRIS GAYLE’S 175, VIRAT KOHLI HURT BY 'WORST BATTG'

No other batsman has sred 10, 000 ns T20 Monday, exactly five years sce his rerd-shatterg knock, Gayle had to s out of KXIP's match agast Delhi Darevils at the Feroz Shah Kotla.

GAYLE 175 SRERD: THE BT OF UNIVERSE BOSS

"David Miller has e to the Punjab si as Gayle's replacement while Aaron Fch will open the ngs wh KL Rahul agast year, Gayle broke his own rerd for most six (durg the onslght agast Pune Warrrs) when he smashed 18 six on his way to an unbeaten 146 off 69 balls for Rangpur Rirs agast Dhaka Dynam the Banglash Premier League fal. Fch's next five liveri were taken for 28 - two of them meetg the roof - relegatg Marsh's 28-n over to send Le Wright uld manage : Gayle took jt 16 off the 13 balls he faced om the allrounr.