On this Day (December 12) in 2017, Gayle storm hit the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL). Notably, dashing left hander achieved an incredible feat of smashing most sixes in an innings. He has continued to shine
in the shorter format of the game. People will fall short of superlatives to describe the massive West Indies swashbuckling opener.
The explosive batsman on December 12, eight years back smashed an unbeaten 146 runs off 69 balls for Rangpur Riders in the final against Dhaka Dynamites to help his team lift the Bangladesh Premier League 2017 title . It took the West Indian 57 balls to post three figures, with his final 46 runs coming off just 12 deliveries. Gayle, who was dropped by Shakib Al Hasan on 22, broke his own world record – set in 2013 when he smashed 17 sixes in an unbeaten 175.
With that feat, he also became the first batsman to breach the 11,000 run mark in T20 cricket. The closest player next on the list was Brendon McCullum, who has 8526 runs in his kitty from 309 matches.
Put into bat first, Gayle’s Rangpur Riders posted 206 runs for the loss of one wicket in their 20 overs. Fellow Windies batsman Johnson Charles departed for 3 in the second over as Shakib Al Hasan struck for his team. However, it was after his dismissal that the towering Gayle hammered the bowlers at will to the boundaries. Aided by Kiwi batsman Brendon McCullum (51*), Gayle smashed four boundaries and hit 18 maximums.
The previous record for the maximum number of sixes in a T20 match was also held by Gayle when he smashed 17 sixes for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Pune Warriors during Indian Premier League (IPL) 2013.Gayle while representing the then Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), smacked 17 sixes which also included a few towering ones in the year 2013. During the IPL 2013 match against Pune Warriors, the West Indian went on to score an unbeaten 175* runs off just 66 balls and scripted the record for the highest individual score by a batter in the history of T20 games.
