Christopher Henry Gayle
Style: Left hand bat, Right arm off break
Born: 21 September 1979, Kingston, Jamaica
Age: 29 years
T-shirt No: 45
Teams: West Indies, ICC World XI, Jamaica, Kolkata Knight Riders, Stanford Superstars, Worcestershire
Some of Chris Gayle’s distinct achievements:
Along with Vivian Richards, Sanath Jayasuriya and Brian Lara he is the only player in One Day International history to have three or more scores of 150.
Fourth West Indian to score 1,000 runs in a calendar year.
Gayle was named Player of the 2006 Champions Trophy, where the West Indies nearly defended the title, which they won in 2004, being defeated in the final by Australia.
Gayle currently holds the record for the highest innings in a Twenty20 International, having scored 117 against South Africa in the World Twenty20 Championship, and, to date, is the only batsman to have hit a century in the Twenty20 format, hitting ten sixes in the match
He is currently the only cricketer to have hit centuries in all three formats of international cricket
