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Gayle also became the top six overall hitter in ODI cricket.
Chris Gayle is determined to help his West Indies team achieve the ODI format after failing to qualify for the Champions Trophy in 2017. He has returned to ODI set up earlier this year He competed in the Zimbabwe World Cup qualifier to help the Caribbean team qualify for the 10-team ODI World Cup in 2019. He made decent outings with the ODI series bat of 3 home games against Bangladesh scored 142 points.
Gayle produced a 73-ball shot with 73 points, six and four six in the series' decider as his team continued 302 points. But a middle-level struggle has left its efforts to abandon. His first six of the match were in the 6th when he hit a straight line on the head of Mehidy Hasan. With the help of this maximum, Gayle has surpassed 270 sixes of Sanath Jayasuriya in the ODI format. He had leveled Sri Lanka n with a six he hit in the 2nd ODI and a couple in the first match.
The greatest number of six by one player in ODI cricket:
The left-hander later crushed the Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza on an additional cover at the 9th to complete 100 six ODI format on the Caribbean soil, Gayle became the first game of the Windies To reach 100 ODI six in a country and also the first player at 100 ODI six in the Caribbean. He became only the 4th player to hit a 100 sixes in the ODI format at home. Shahid Afridi hit 86 sixth in 86 innings in the United Arab Emirates including the ODI tournaments he played in that country.
Gayle joined Brendon McCullum, MS Dhoni and Martin Guptill who knocked 100 ODI six at home. With the 5th and the last six of the game, he leveled the Afridi record for the largest number of six in international cricket. Both players reached 476 sixths each in the three international formats
The greatest number of six per player in a cricket country ODI:
(Statistics as July 29, 2018)
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