The huge-hitting West Indies star now has 1,001 T20 sixes, with more maximums to his name than any international team
And now for something completely different. The Rajasthan Royals played the Kings XI Punjab in Abu Dhabi last Friday, and while they were at it Chris Gayle hit his 1,000th six in T20
Cricket. He did it with a slightly manic pull shot over midwicket, off a 19-year-old kid called Kartik Tyagi. This is Tyagi’s first season in the IPL, so he didn’t know better than to try bowling a chest-high bouncer when Gayle was 85 not out at the death. In the end, Jofra Archer got Gayle for 99 in the next over, bowled with a leg-stump yorker. Gayle was so angry about it that he tossed his bat away to square leg, then regained his cool, and congratulated Archer by slapping his hand as he walked off.
“Another record?” Gayle said afterwards. “Oh man!”