Harbhajan Singh stunned by Chris Gayle’s record

Harbhajan Singh expressed shocked on Gayle's boundary percentage runs in his career.

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Chris Gayle completed 10,000 runs in T20 cricket and people started pouring tributes to the Jamaican’s unimaginable feat. India’s most successful off-spinner Harbhajan Singh was stunned by Gayle’s boundary scoring percentage.

The West Indian has managed to hit 769 boundaries and 743 strikes over the ropes in 290 games. Both are the highest by any batsman in the history of T20 cricket. The combined tally of the fours and sixes hit by Gayle makes up to 7534 runs which is 74.79% of his career runs. That is an exceptional record to have and no wonder the ‘Turbanator’ described this record as ‘crazy’.

Harbhajan, though, kept the big man from Jamaica under check in RCB’s home game against Mumbai Indians on April 14. The off-spinner bowled 16 balls to Gayle and gave away just 13 runs with 11 dot balls. Thought Gayle managed to hit a four and a six to him, Harbhajan tucked him up with some tight lines using all his experience.

The exceptional thing about Gayle’s T20 career is that he is a cut above the rest. He has managed to reach the three-figure mark 18 times in his career and the next best is 7 by Kiwi Brendon McCullum. The Jamaican also holds the record of most 50+ scores as he has managed it 78 times in his career. David Warner is behind by a distance with 61 such scores.

The opener has held the record of the highest score by a batsman in an innings for four years. He clobbered the Pune Warriors bowling to score an unbelievable 175 which included a record 17 sixes. The combined tally of the runs he scored through boundaries in this innings was 154, an astounding record. It is fair to say that these numbers will take some beating and are here to stay for quite some time.

Gayle might be in his last quarter of a glittering career, but he can still hit them a long way. His 38-ball 77 against Gujarat Lions was a perfect example of his effectiveness despite being aged 37.

RCB will be hoping that Gayle shows more of the same in the matches to come.

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