West Indies opener Chris Gayle is the only batsman to smash a six off the first ball of a test match.
Gayle was the first international Twenty20 centurion, and thus the first cricketer to score centuries in all three formats of the game.
Gayle is the first West Indian to score more than 7,000 runs and take more than 150 wickets in ODIs.
Gayle is one of five players to make three or more scores in excess of 150 in ODIs.
The big Jamaican played his 100th Test at his home ground in Jamaica when New Zealand visited the Caribbean in June 2014. He scored a fifty in that game to mark the landmark occasion, but could not save his side from losing. However, he soon injured his lower back and could not complete the home summer. He was expected to be fit for the Test series in South Africa, but could not recover in time. Nonetheless, he returned for the following T20I and ODI series. Though he didn't make an impact in the ODI series, Gayle was expected to shoulder the responsibility of the West Indies' batting line-up in the 2015 World Cup.
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