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chris gayle

christopher henry `` chris '' gayle -lrb- born 21 september 1979 -rrb- is a jamaican cricketer who plays international cricket for the west indies .
he captained the west indies ' side from 2007 to 2010 .
he plays domestic cricket for jamaica , and also represents the royal challengers bangalore in the indian premier league , the melbourne renegades in the big bash league and the dhaka gladiators in the bangladesh premier league .
he has also represented worcestershire , the western warriors , sydney thunder , barisal burners and the kolkata knight riders in his career .
he was also selected for team uva next for the inaugural sri lanka premier league in 2012 .
he is one of only four players who have scored two triple centuries at test level : 317 against south africa in 2005 , and 333 against sri lanka in 2010 .
he is known as a big hitter , very often hitting sixes ; in 2012 he became the first player to hit a six off the first ball of a test match .
playing for royal challengers bangalore , he scored a 30-ball century , that became the highest individual t20 score -lrb- 175 not out -rrb- .
it eclipsed the previous mark set by brendon mccullum of kolkata knight riders .
at the launch of the caribbean premier league he was announced as the first franchise player for the league .
chris gayle became the first batsman in world cup history to score a double century when he reached 200 off 138 balls during the 2015 cricket world cup versus zimbabwe .
he finished on 215 runs , which was the record for highest score in a world cup until it was broken by martin guptill , ironically against gayle 's west indies team .
he is one of the five players to score a double century in odis .
