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Chris Gayle
India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder
Chris Gayle is a West Indies Cricket opener whose 612-match career spans Tests, One-Day Internationals, and T20 franchise cricket across at least seven competitions. He has scored 21,848 runs at a batting average of 37.35 and a strike rate of 103.81, while contributing 189 wickets at an economy of 4.4. His most recent appearances came in the 2022 Bangladesh Premier League, where he scored 241 runs from ten innings including one half-century. The IPL remains his most explosive format by rate, with 4,997 runs at a strike rate of 149.34 across 141 matches for Royal Challengers Bangalore, Punjab Kings, and Kolkata Knight Riders.
Runs
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Wickets
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Bat Avg
37.4
Bowl Avg
37.1
2026 Season Context
Current team & role
Royal Challengers Bangalore · All-Rounder
Recent form
Gayle's last 10 appearances came in the 2022 Bangladesh Premier League, where he recorded scores of 33, 22, 7, 52*, 10, 25, 4, 45, 7, and 36. That gives him one fifty from ten innings with three score
Strongest format
One-Day International — The ODI format is Gayle's primary competition by match count, with 199 appearances for West Indies Cricket yielding 6,433 runs at an average of 35.15.
Career stats overview
52 Test · 199 ODI · 361 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
Test
52 matches
3,927
Runs scored
40
Wickets taken
Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.
ODI
199 matches
6,433
Runs scored
95
Wickets taken
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
361 matches
11,488
Runs scored
54
Wickets taken
Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.
Format-aware deep dive
Where he dominates
Home record
215
wickets
Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.
Fourth-innings force
112
wickets
A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.
Lower-order resilience
38.4
batting avg
At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.
Elite opposition
198
wkts in 48 M
Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.
Consistency
14
five-wicket hauls
Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.
WTC presence
2
finals played
In the conversation every cycle. Central to this India red-ball side.
Career threads
Beyond the numbers
Over 21,000 career runs across seven competitions
Chris Gayle has accumulated 21,848 runs from 612 matches spanning Tests, ODIs, and T20 leagues across four continents. His career batting average of 37.35 holds up across formats and franchises, a consistency that is difficult to sustain over that volume of cricket.
IPL strike rate of 149.34 is his most destructive format
Across 141 IPL appearances, Gayle has scored 4,997 runs at a strike rate of 149.34 and a batting average of 39.98. Those numbers rank among the strongest in the competition's history and come across stints with Royal Challengers Bangalore, Punjab Kings, and Kolkata Knight Riders.
England the toughest matchup he has dominated
In 56 matches against England Cricket, Gayle has scored 2,800 runs at a batting average of 46.67. He has also taken 29 wickets against them at an economy of 3.47, making England both his most frequent and most fruitful opponent across formats.
M Chinnaswamy Stadium his most productive batting venue
At Chinnaswamy, Gayle averages 41.13 with a strike rate of 159.82 across 44 matches, scoring 1,563 runs. Those are his best combined figures at any venue with a substantial sample size, reflecting the ground's dimensions and his long association with Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Useful with the ball across all formats
Gayle has taken 189 wickets across 612 matches at a bowling average of 37.14 and an economy of 4.4. In Tests specifically, his economy drops to 2.72 across 52 matches, showing that his part-time off-spin has been a genuine containment option in the longest format.
Head-to-head
Vs opponents
Career totals broken down by the teams CH Gayle has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
England
- Matches
- 56
- Runs
- 2,800
- Wickets
- 29
Australia
- Matches
- 46
- Runs
- 1,490
- Wickets
- 22
South Africa
- Matches
- 42
- Runs
- 1,562
- Wickets
- 20
India
- Matches
- 33
- Runs
- 1,056
- Wickets
- 11
New Zealand
- Matches
- 33
- Runs
- 1,394
- Wickets
- 21
Pakistan
- Matches
- 30
- Runs
- 748
- Wickets
- 10
Sri Lanka
- Matches
- 27
- Runs
- 917
- Wickets
- 10
Bangladesh
- Matches
- 26
- Runs
- 748
- Wickets
- 8
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where CH Gayle has turned out most often.
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka
- Matches
- 48
- Runs
- 1,646
- Wickets
- 3
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
- Matches
- 44
- Runs
- 1,563
- Wickets
- 7
Sabina Park, Kingston
- Matches
- 39
- Runs
- 1,307
- Wickets
- 9
Warner Park, Basseterre
- Matches
- 38
- Runs
- 1,261
- Wickets
- 1
Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain
- Matches
- 27
- Runs
- 1,031
- Wickets
- 12
Kensington Oval, Bridgetown
- Matches
- 22
- Runs
- 832
- Wickets
- 4
Providence Stadium, Guyana
- Matches
- 21
- Runs
- 497
- Wickets
- 7
Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet
- Matches
- 14
- Runs
- 550
- Wickets
- 4
Official profile
Elsewhere on the web
ESPNcricinfo
CH Gayle's profile
Historical aggregates derived from Cricsheet (cricsheet.org) under ODC-BY licence. 2001/02–2026 IPL seasons. Batting average uses dismissals as the denominator; bowler wickets are credited only for bowler-kind dismissals (bowled, caught, lbw, caught-and-bowled, stumped, hit wicket). Venue and opposition splits are rebuilt after every ingest from the Cricsheet archive.
Photo credits (1)
- Chris Gayle — photo by Dannow at English Wikipedia, Public domain · source