Records and Chris Gayle are
synonymous to each other when it comes to Twenty20 cricket and the explosive
West Indies batsman went on to better his plethora of records he made in the
shortest format of the game.
Gayle, who smashed an unbeaten 146
off just 69 balls for Rangpur Riders in the Bangladesh Premier League final against Dhaka Dynamites in Dhaka, became the first batsman to cross the 11-000
run mark in T20 cricket. Next in the list is Brendon McCullum with 8526 runs in 309 matches. During the course
of his belligerent knock, Gayle also became the first batsman to hit 20
hundreds in T20s, which was studded with 18 towering sixes and five fours. He
has also scored two hundreds in T20I for West Indies.
The number of sixes hit by Gayle is
also a world record in an innings in the format. His sixes count in T20 cricket
reached whopping figure of 819. In the process, Gayle became the first batsman
to hit 100 sixes in BPL. He smacked 17 sixes in an unbeaten 175 for Royal
Challengers Bangalore against Pune Warriors in the IPL 2013.
Gayle, who got a life when he was
dropped by Shakib Al Hasan on 22, shared an unbeaten 201-run stand with
McCullum - a highest partnership in T20 final - to power Rangpur Riders to
206/1. Bowlers complemented their batsmen effort with a good show, reducing
Dhaka Dynamites to 149/9 as Rangpur Riders won the title by 57 runs.
