2017 Bangladesh Premier League

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.

Caribbean Premier League 2015

The 2015 Caribbean Premier League season was the third season of the Caribbean Premier League established by West Indies Cricket Board. The season is won by Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel and claims their maiden title after beating defending champions Barbados Tridents by 20 runs in final in Port-of-Spain. Kamran Akmal and Cameron Delport score fifties. Both did partnership of 102 in 76 deliveries.

Both batsman enjoyed reprieves. Akmal was dropped off Keiron Pollard bowling for 44 in the 12^th over while Delport was given a life on 31 when Ravi Rampaul failed to hold on to a return chance. Both the batsman were out in the same over but in the end, Dwayne Bravo scored 29 off 15 deliveries and help the side accumulate 62 off the last five overs.

Trident bought in USA Batsman Steven Taylor for his second game of the season and he along with Dwayne Smith powered his side to a rapid start. Trident move to 47 runs in four overs. Like their Semi-Final match against Amazon Warriors, it was the Red Steel spinners who kept the pressure on the batsmen. Suleiman Benn and Derone Davis bowled well and picked up wickets in time. Even though Pollard and Jason Holder were at the crease but they eventually ended 20 runs short.

Kamran Akmal got man of the match award for his innings and Dwayne Bravo got player of the series award. Chris Gayle remains the top scorer with 430 runs in ten matches which include a century and three half centuries. Dwayne Bravo picked up 28 wickets in the tournament and took two four wicket haul and one five wicket haul in season in 13 matches. The next season will take place in 2016. 

World Cup 2015 - Records Breaking Match

This year in World Cup 2015, both bowlers and batsman are giving great performances. Ten days are passed and tournament is already flooded with lot of records. World Cup first match started with 300+ scores and most of the matches are ending in 300+ scores in first innings. New Zealand, Australia, India, and West Indies are giving great performances. West Indies have scored 300+ in all matches and so did India.

New Zealand beats England with 37.4 overs spare, it is the worst defeat for a test nation. Tim Southee took seven wickets in a match, which is the best bowling for New Zealand in World Cup. McCullum smashed fastest World Cup fifty against England. Ireland chased down 300+ score against West Indies. Pakistan were reduced to 1 for 4 against West Indies, the worst start in any of the World Cup match. Eoin Morgan is the only man in World Cup 2015 to play for two different countries. He played for Ireland in 2007 and now for England as a Captain.

Finally, on 24^th February 2015, many World Cup records were broken. West Indies firing machine Chris Gayle finally turned all faces towards him in a single match. He struck first double-hundreds of World Cup in in just 138 balls. He scored 215 runs, the highest by any batsman in World Cup. He broke Gary Kirsten record of 188 runs against UAE. He is the now the fourth batsman to scored double hundred in ODIs. His double century came after exactly five years, Sachin Tendulkar scored first Double-hundreds against South Africa.

Sixteen number of sixes smashed by Chris Gayle in his innings, joint most by any batsman in ODI. AB de Villiers and Rohit Sharma have also hit 16 sixes. Gayle runs tally is above 9000 in ODIs and became second West Indies batsman after Brian Lara to achieve this feat. This was his 22^nd century, equal to Saurav Ganguly and Virat Kohli. 372 runs scored by West Indies in their innings, their highest in ODI. This is also the highest score by any team in ODI in Australia.

Gayle and Samuels scored 372 runs partnership for second wicket, which is the highest any wicket partnership in ODI. The previous record was 331, between Sachin and Rahul Dravid. 298 balls faced by Gayle and Samuels, the most for any ODI stand. The partnership record for second wicket is also broken by them. Earlier record was for 165 runs between Sunil Gavaskar and Mohammad Azharuddin in 1987. Zimbabwe scored 3 number of 275+ scores in this World Cup, the most ever for them in single edition of World Cup.

These are some of the records broken in a single match and until now in this edition of World Cup. We may see more records breaking performance in remaining matches. Stay Tuned for all.