Chris Gayle Biography - Birth date, Achievements, Career, Family, Awards

Chris Gayle was born on 21 September 1979 in Kingston, Jamaica. His father's name was "Dudley Gayle" who was in the police by profession, and while his mother used to sell peanuts etc. in the neighborhood. Used to make money by selling.

Chris Gayle played his first-class debut at the age of just 19. The match was played by Gayle for Jamaica followed by West Indies Gayle's first youth international match of his career, his first ODI in 1999, eleven months later, and his first Test six months later. In July 2001, Gayle (175) set a record partnership with Daren Ganga (89) at Queens Sports Club Bulawayo when he scored 214 against Zimbabwe. Gayle started his career at a slow pace. But in November 2002 he scored three centuries against India and became the third West Indian player to score the fastest 1,000-plus runs in a calendar year with Vivian Richards and Brian Lara. Gayle is one of only six players in One Day International history to have scores of 150 or more. In 2005, he was dropped from the first Test against South Africa due to some controversies. But he was given a chance again in the second match in which he played a thrilling 317 runs and the same match was the first triple century he played against Africa and before Mahela Jayawardene scored 374, it was the highest individual Test score against him. Was. In 2005, Gayle joined Worcestershire, scored two half-centuries in three first-class matches, played 8 matches and won two half-centuries in five ODIs, and a Man of the Match award in the one-day National League.

गGayle was named Player of the 2006 Champions Trophy on 17 December 2009 in Australia v West Indies 3rd Test match Chris Gayle scored fifth fastest century in Test match history. He scored a century in just 70 balls. Gayle holds the record for most innings in Twenty20 Internationals, scoring 117 against South Africa in the first match of the 2007 World Twenty20, making his innings the first century of International Twenty20 cricket and to date K is one of the total four (the other three were: Brendon McCullum's 116 not out, Suresh Raina's 101 and Mahela Jayawardene's 100). Because of this, he and McCullum are the recipients of the honor of the only batsmen to score a century in each of the three formats of international cricket. Gayle scored 75 from 41 balls against Australia in the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 semi-final, the West Indies total of 205, the tournament's highest. In November 2012, during the first Test against Bangladesh in Dhaka, Gayle became the first player in the history of Test cricket to hit a six off the first ball of a match. In 2013, during the third Test against Zimbabwe, Gayle surpassed Brian Lara's record of hitting the most sixes in Test cricket by a West Indian cricketer. In February 2015, he became the fourth cricketer to score a double century in ODIs when he scored 215 against Zimbabwe in the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup. Chris Gayle ended his List-A career for Jamaica with a match-winning century against Barbados in the Super 50 Cup 2018.

On 18 February 2019, Gayle announced that he would retire from the ODI after the 2019 Cricket World Cup. He reversed this decision in June 2019. In April 2019, he was named in the West Indies squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup, marking his fifth consecutive World Cup appearance (2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019). On 31 May 2019, in the West Indies opening match of the World Cup, Gayle hit his 40th six in World Cup matches, surpassing AB de Villiers' record of 37, the most by any batsman in World Cup history. In the West Indies. Match against Australia, Gayle scored his 1,000th run in the Cricket World Cup. On 1 July 2019, in the match against Sri Lanka, Gayle became the most capped player for the West Indies in international cricket, playing in his 455th match.