Chris Gayle is a Jamaican cricketer, who plays for the national cricket team of West Indies since 1999. He is the current vice-captain of the team and plays for the shorter format of the game in limited overs matches only.

Gayle also captained the national team in test format from 2007 to 2010. He has played numbers of tournaments in his two-decade-long career and represented the West Indies squad leading in all three formats of the game.

After 2014, he took retirement from the Test format and restricted himself in the limited-over games only.

He made numerous records and achieved various honors or awards in his longest career graph. Gayle was added to the team of 2019 ICC World Cup and has declared that he will take retirement from the ODI format after this World Cup tournament.

He took his primary lessons from the Lucas Cricket Club of Jamaica and has represented Jamaica team in domestic circuit at the beginning of his career. He used to play first-class cricket too before entering the national squad of West Indies in 1999.

Chris Gayle is a destructive batsman, who is praised for his hitting imposing physique and timing. Gayle knows to devastate the statistics of even the thriftiest of the opening bowler with his power hitting style. Unlike his batting characteristic, he is a very calm and composed bowler with off-break style in adept spinning techniques.

One of the greatest cricketers of all time Chris Gayle made a cricket academy named ‘The Chris Gayle Academy’ in 2015 to aid disadvantaged children for a better life. Hence, not only in the 22-yard of the field but Gayle has a divining personality to follow out of the crease as well.

(as Compiled by Madhushree Das Ghosh)

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