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sgtdjones 2017-04-14 10:57:15 

Why Gayle is the prototype of the pure T20 batsman

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The West Indian power-hitter's boundary-centric approach has made him perhaps the greatest exponent of successful T20 batting

Chris Gayle: unapologetic basher of the cricket ball

A hundred years ago, a revolution was in the offing in baseball. The dead-ball era was about to come to an end. The greatest champion and mascot of the new baseball was Babe Ruth, a strong, larger-than-life power-hitter who played for the New York Yankees, and laid the foundation not only for baseball as we know it today but also for the dominance of the Yankees over the last 100 years. The rules of baseball were changed at the end of the dead-ball era to favour power-hitting.

It would not be wrong to view Christopher Henry Gayle as the Ruth-like talisman of the T20 game. Few elite international players have embraced the format as Gayle has. As he approaches 10,000 T20 runs, he is over 2500 ahead of the next on the list. He has also hit nearly 300 sixes more than the closest competitor. It is not just the magnitude of his records, it is the revolutionary manner in which he has produced those numbers that makes him not just the front runner to be considered T20's Ruth, but perhaps the only T20 veteran who can claim such a mantle.

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sgtdjones 2017-04-14 10:57:55 

Who dem come fer seeee

 
sgtdjones 2017-04-14 11:00:48 

Gayle

Ah know you read this Forum

When ya get back in form

Ah go give u back ur Universe Boss title.

Let's see it in the next game man.


razz razz razz

 
sgtdjones 2017-04-15 09:44:57 

Ok Gayle

WE need you to show us what you can do

You still gats it.

cool cool cool