"Gayle hits record sizes in BPL final"
NEW DELHI Records and Chris Gayle are synonymous to each other when it comes to Twenty 20 cricket and explosive West Indies batsman on Tuesday went on to better his plethora of records he made in the shortest format of the game. Gayle, who smashed an uneaten 146 off just 69 balls for Rangpur Riders in the Bangladesh Premier League final against Dhaka Dynamites in Dhaka become the first batsman to cross the 11-000 run mark in T 20 cricket. Nest in the list is Brendan Mccullum with 8526 runs in 309 matches. During the course of this belligerent knock, Gayle also became the first batsman to hit 20 hundreds in T 20 which was studded with 18 towering sixes and five fours He has also scored two hundreds in T 20 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 T 20 cricket reached who ping figure of 819. In the process, Gayle become the first Batsman to hit 100 sixes in BPL. Gayle who got a life when he was dropped by Shakib-al-Hassan on 22, shared an unbeaten 201 run stand with Mccullum a highest partnership in T 20 final to power Rangpur Riders to 206/1
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