Chris Gayle is already announced that he is still not retired. Chris Gayle, playing his last ODI series before the World Cup, is coming to the ground with the intention of making a record in every match. On Thursday, the Caribbean player brought the storm against England. The Jamaican set the record for scoring 162 runs in 97 balls.
Last
couple of year he was out of the West Indies cricket team due to issue with
board and even un-consistence form in ODI. Even from last 3-4 year West Indies
team even falling down consistently. West Indies Ranking fall so badly that one
of the dominating team of 70s have to play qualify matches for the 2019 World
cup with associated team.
To Finding new way and bring team on back to
strong status West Indies have shown faith again of the experience player Chris
Gayle. This World cup would be the last chance for universal boss to bring some
happiness to west Indian fan and tell International cricket memorable good bye
Few of
the records that Chris Gayle made in today's match Vs England that fan might
feel to missed for life time.
First Player to Hit 500
International Sixes
Gayle hit
14 sixes in the match for the West Indies to chase the huge target of 419 runs.
Along with that, became the first
batsman in the world to score 500 international sixes. Chris Gayle completed
the record of most sixes in international cricket in the first ODI against
England when he had left behind Shahid Afridi (476 sixes) of Pakistan. In the
fourth ODI on Wednesday, he also completed his 500th international hundred in
international cricket.
10,000 runs in ODI
This
numbers might come very early if Gayle able to play ODI continue in past. After,
Brian Lara Chris Gayle became the second Caribbean player to score 10,000
international runs in ODIs. Gayle crossed the 10,000 mark in his 288th ODI
match. Gayle completed this figure with fantastic sixes. So far, 14 players
have crossed the 10,000 mark in one-day cricket, in which only two players have
been able to do this awesome. Prior to Gayle this was done by former Australia
legend Ricky Ponting.
Most Sixes in series
Chris Gayle has made a record of most sixes in a one-day
series or tournament. Gayle hit 14 sixes in the fourth one-dayer against
England, while the series has so far hit 30 sixes, which is a world record, and
there is still a match left. The interesting thing is that they have broken
their own records in this case. Earlier, he had set a record by scoring 26
sixes in 6 innings of the 2015 Cricket World Cup, which he has now broken.
Chris Gayle also broke the record of most
sixes against a team. These records were recorded till now by Rohit Sharma of
India, who scored 66 sixes in ODIs against Australia. Gayle has gone far ahead
of Rohit's record.
Fastest Century for West Indies
Along with this, Chris Gayle has now moved to
second place in the fastest century for West Indies He completed a century in 55 balls against England on Wednesday. In this
case, the name of former West Indian great Brian Lara is recorded, who scored a
century in 45 balls against Bangladesh in 1999.
