Chris Gayle hits record sixes in Bangladesh Premier League final

NEW DELHI: Records and Chris Gayle are synonymous to each other when it comes to Twenty20 cricket and the explosive West Indies batsman on Tuesday went on to better his plethora of records he made in the shortest format of the game.

During the course of his belligerent knock, Gayle also became the first batsman to hit 20 hundreds in T20s, which was studded with 18 towering sixes and five fours. He has also scored two hundreds in T20I for West Indies.

The number of sixes hit by Gayle is also a world record in an innings in the format. His sixes count in T20 cricket reached whopping figure of 819. In the process, Gayle became the first batsman to hit 100 sixes in BPL.

Gayle, who got a life when he was dropped by Shakib Al Hasan on 22, shared an unbeaten 201-run stand with McCullum - a highest partnership in T20 final - to power Rangpur Riders to 206/1.