Chris Gayle Biography, Age, Wife, Height, Amazing Facts

Chris Gayle: Christopher Henry Gayle is a Jamaican cricketer and he plays cricket for the West Indies at the international level. A ruinous hitter, Gayle is generally viewed as one of the best batsmen to have played T20 cricket, and by some as the best of all time. Gayle assumed an essential part in the West Indies sides that won the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, 2012 ICC World T20, and 2016 ICC World T20. You’ll find here all details about Chris Gayle’s personal and professional life as well. So stay connected and read this article.

Chris Gayle Biography

Christopher Henry Gayle – Family

Christopher Henry Gayle was born to Dudley and Hazel Gayle on 21^st September 1979. Chris Gayle has five siblings. Two of his siblings are Vanclive Parris, Wayne Gayle (Younger). He tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend Natasha Berridge on 31^st May 2009. On 20^th April 2016, he became the father of a daughter named Blush.

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Career

Domestic Career

Gayle began playing cricket as a child at the Lucas Cricket Club in his hometown, Kingston. He played for the youth sides in Jamaica prior to making his international debut. He didn’t have to struggle it out hard at the domestic level as he made his international debut just 11 months after playing his first-class debut for Jamaica.

Moreover, he joined the English County Worcestershire to play in the County Championship season. He played three first-class matches and five ODIs. He scored four half-centuries in 8 matches.

International Career

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When Chris was 19 years old, he made his international debut in an ODI against the Indian Cricket Side at Toronto in Canada on 10th September 1999. He made just 1 run batting at No. 4. Moreover, he bowled 6 overs that brought 37 scores out of the 165 that India made for victory.

After six months, he played his very first Test match against Zimbabwe in Trinidad that began on 15th March 2000. He made 33 runs in the first innings and a golden duck in the 2nd. Gayle likewise got figures of 3/25 in the first innings. The domestic side won the match by 35 runs.

He became well known in 2002 when he enrolled 3 centuries against India and joined the greats like Sir Vivian Richards and Brian Lara to the list of West Indians with more than 1,000 worldwide runs in a calendar year. Then, he had an ordinary couple of years before 2005.

In 2005, he was selected to play the Test matches against Team South Africa. In the 4th Test, he scored his triple century (317) to save the contest and recorded the highest individual score against the South African cricket side. However, his career was undermined after he had a couple of heart issues in the series that followed. He was diagnosed to have a congenital heart deformity causing cardiac dysrhythmia. Yet, considering how strong the man he is mentally and physically, he returned to Test Cricket soon and became the 4th West Indian to carry his bat in a Test inning.

On 16th February Gayle 2006, Chris made his T20I debut against the New Zealand side at Eden Park in Auckland. He opened the innings and made only 10 runs off 12 deliveries. He got back with figures of 2/22 in his 4 overs. However, the two sides could score just 126 runs and the outcome was gotten after a ‘bowl-out’. The hosts dominated the match.

He then played in the ICC Champions Trophy 2006 and won the tournament. He made 150 scores more than any other batsman in the tournament and turned into the highest run-getter in the tournament with 474 runs. Moreover, he took 8 wickets in the series and was granted the ‘Man of the Tournament award.

The Jamaican couldn’t proceed with his form in the ICC ODI World Cup 2007 that followed. However, he was at his best when the inaugural ICC T20 World Cup was played a couple of months later. He secured the very first T20 international century in the competition. Thus, he became the first cricketer to make centuries in three various formats at the international level.

Chris Gayle became the captain of the West Indies side in the ICC T20 World Cup 2009 subsequent to getting condemned for playing in the IPL 2008 and missing a worldwide series a couple of months before. Gayle scored a quickfire 88 in the opening match of the competition and aided the Windies to defeat the powerful Australians. They defeated Sri Lanka in the semi-final.

In December 2009, he made a 70-ball century in a Test match against Australia, which was the fifth-quickest Test century at that time. After eleven months, he enrolled in another triple century (333) and turned out to be only the fourth cricketer to score two triple centuries in Test cricket after Sir Donald Bradman, Brian Lara, and Virender Sehwag.

He additionally led the West Indies side in the 2010 edition of the ICC T20 World Cup. One more significant point in his career came in the ICC T20 World Cup 2012. He scored a bursting thump of 75 runs against Australia in the semi-final of the competition to lead the Windies into the final. Gayle’s 75 was the highest individual score of the tournament. The ‘Men in Maroon’ proceeded to win the trophy for the first time after 2 days.

He was chosen to play the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 in England. He was West Indies’s highest run-getter in the competition with 96 runs in 3 innings. Quick forward to ICC T20 World Cup 2014, Chris Gayle was indeed the main run-getter for West Indies with 143 runs in 5 innings.

The ICC ODI World Cup 2015 was his 4th back-to-back ICC ODI World Cup. The ‘legend’ was indeed the main run-getter in the competition. He made 340 runs in 6 innings. He scored his maiden ODI double century in this tournament and became the first player to do so in a World Cup. In the same innings, he imparted a 372-run partnership along with Marlon Samuels, which is the highest partnership in a World Cup match to date.

Once again, Gayle performed fabulously for West Indies in the ICC T20 World Cup 2016 where they became the first side to win the title twice. Chris Gayle scored 113 runs in 4 innings

The Jamaican played his 5th sequential ICC ODI World Cup in 2019. He had declared before the beginning of the competition that he will resign from ODI cricket as soon as the tournament ends. He figured out how to score just 242 runs in 8 games and afterward, he suddenly decided to proceed with his ODI vocation. In the World Cup, he turned into the most capped player for the West Indies side with 455 appearances in international cricket. Gayle decided to have some time off from cricket for a while in December 2019. His return date is obscure.

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T20 Leagues Career

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The hard-hitting batsman was signed by the Western Australia warriors for the debut edition of the Big Bash League in 2009/10. In the same year, he was additionally picked by the Kolkata Knight Riders to play in the 2nd edition of the Indian Premier League. He had very customary two seasons with them prior to switching the Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2011. The switch ended up being very beneficial for him as he arose as the highest run-getter in the competition with 608 scores to his name with 2 centuries and three 50s. He also smashed the most number of sixes that season. He smashed 44 sixes while the second name in the list, MS Dhoni, had hit only 23 even subsequent to playing 4 additional innings.

Chris Gayle got five ‘Man of the Match’ awards in the season and was likewise named the ‘Most Valuable Player of IPL 2011’. In the BBL, he became a part of Sydney Thunder for the following season. He scored the highest runs in the series with 293 runs including a century. He then joined the Bangladesh Premier League playing for the Barisal Burners and hit two centuries in the season.

He proceeded with his splendid form in the 2012 edition of the IPL also. He scored 733 runs in 14 matches and turned into the first cricketer to win two IPL Orange Caps. He won it in sequential seasons. He once again scored a maximum number of sixes (59) in the season. However, he gave his best performance in the T20 history in the following year. Chris Gayle’s highest score in IPL and in T20 cricket came against Pune Warriors India on 23rd April 2013 when he scored 175 not out in only 66 balls. He broke various records in the innings including the fastest century for any type of competitive cricket (30 balls) and the maximum number of sixes in T20 innings (17). To add to it, he additionally took 2 wickets in the match.

He had normal seasons of T20 cricket till 2016. He played for the Adelaide Striker in the Big Bash League in 2016 and rose to Yuvraj Singh’s record of fastest fifty in T20 cricket (12 balls). That very year, he played for the Lahore Qalandars in the Pakistan Super League and made just 103 runs in 5 matches. The next year, he played for the Karachi Kings and scored just 160 runs in 9 games.

In April 2017, Chris Gayle became the first cricketer to record 10,000 runs in T20 cricket. He had a turnaround year in IPL 2018 when the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) snapped him at his base cost of INR 2 crore subsequent to being scorned by his past establishment out of nowhere. He made 368 scores in 2018 and 490 scores in 2019 for KXIP.

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Chris Gayle – Career Statistics

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Chris Gayle – Throughout the Years

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Records

Domestic / T20 League Records

• Chris Gayle scored highest runs in T20 cricket (13,152* runs)
• He also scored highest runs in IPL 2011 (608 runs)
• Highest Run-Getter in IPL 2012 (733 runs)
• Chris Gayle scored 175 runs in IPL that is the highest individual score in T20.
• He recorded the fastest century in T20 cricket (30 balls versus Pune Warriors India)
• He hit most sixes in an innings in T20 cricket (18 versus Dynamites)
• He has equaled the record for the fastest 50 in T20 cricket (12 balls versus Adelaide Strikers)
• One and only batsman to score 10,000 runs in T20 cricket
• Moreover, he the first batsman to score hundred T20I sixes
• Chris smashed the most centuries in T20 cricket (22)
• He hit most centuries in IPL cricket (6)
• Chris scored the highest individual runs in a losing cause in T20 cricket (151* versus Kent)

International Records

• Chris Gayle is the most capped cricketer for Team West Indies (461* matches)
• One and only player to have hit a triple century in Tests, double century in One Day Internationals and a century in T20Is
• He scored highest runs for West Indies in ODIs (10,425*)
• He also recorded highest runs for his Team West Indies in T20Is (1,627*)
• Moreover, Chris Gayle also made highest runs in ICC Champions Trophy 2006 (474 runs)
• He made the first-ever T20I century and became the first cricketer to hit centuries in all three formats of the game
• Chris is the 4th player to hit two Test triple centuries
• First player from Windies to smash a six off the 1^st ball of a Test match
• He is the only West Indian cricketer to hit a double century in ODIs (215 vs. Zimbabwe)
• He scored the fastest double century in ODIs (138 balls)
• First cricketer to score two centuries in the ODI World Cup (215 vs. Zimbabwe)
• He is also included in the highest partnership in World Cups (372 with Marlon Samuels vs. Zimbabwe)
• He scored most sixes in World Cup History (49*)
• He hit most sixes for West Indies in Test cricket (98*)
• Chris played most number of World Cup matches for his side (35*)
• One and only cricketer to have hit centuries in ICC U-19 World Cup, ICC World T20, ICC Cricket World Cup, ICC Champions Trophy and in ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier.
• He scored the fastest ODI fifty for West Indies (19 balls)
• He scored highest runs in ICC Champions Trophy (791* runs)
• Also, he scored the most number of sixes in International Cricket (534 runs)

Awards and Achievements

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The Chris Gayle Academy

In 2015, Chris Gayle set up ‘The Chris Gayle Academy’. He set up this academy with the aim of helping deprived children in both Jamaica and the United Kingdom better themselves and their communities through their inclusion in sport. Since then the institute has extended and presently works with the headway of young cricketer vocations by giving admittance to quality mentors and playing opportunities abroad.

Music

Chris Gayle dispatched a music career in November 2020 with a dancehall music video called “We Come Out To Party”. Prior to 2020, he had delivered a video about his celebrating way of life. In April 2021, Gayle delivered a music video named “Jamaica to India” in a joint effort with the Indian rapper Emiway Bantai. In September 2021, Gayle declared a song named ‘Punjabi Daddy’ and he will be found in Sikh Turban look.

Retirement

On 6th November 2021, Chris Gayle has retired from International Cricket on 6^th November 2021 and played his last T20I match against Team Australia in the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium.

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