Christopher Henry Gayle (born 21 September 1979) is a
Jamaican cricket
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er who has played international cricket for the
West Indies
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from 1999 to 2021. Nicknamed "The Universe Boss", Gayle is widely regarded as the greatest
Twenty20
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batsman ever in the history of Cricket. He played a crucial role in the West Indies teams that won the
2004 ICC Champions Trophy
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,
2012 ICC World Twenty20
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and
2016 ICC World Twenty20.
He has set numerous records across all three formats of the game. He is the most capped player for the West Indies in
international cricket
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and is the only player to score a triplet of centuries – a triple hundred in Tests, double hundred in ODIs and a hundred in T20Is. Gayle is the only player to score more than 14,000 runs and hit more than 1000 sixes in T20 cricket
He is also the leading run scorer for West Indies in both ODIs and T20Is and, after
Brian Lara
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, was the second player to score more than 10,000 runs for West Indies in
ODI Cricket. Gayle was the first West Indian batsman to score a double-century in ODI cricket and subsequently in the history of World Cup cricket, where he scored an innings of 215 against Zimbabwe. His innings of 215 is currently the highest individual score by a left-handed batsman in ODI cricket. Along with the ODI record, he has the highest individual score in the
T20 World Cup T20 World Cup refers to:
* Men's T20 World Cup
* Women's T20 World Cup
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