Chris Gayle Has Sent A Special Message To Franchise Owners: The fever of the Indian Premier League is on as a new chapter of the league has already kickstarted, with two new franchises making the ongoing edition a 10-team affair. While it’s a new beginning for several young talents around the world in the IPL, on the other hand, a few IPL legends are not a part of this season for different reasons.
Among them, West Indies’ cricketing superstar Chris Gayle is not playing in the ongoing season as he had opted out of this year’s edition. ‘Universe Boss’ Chris Gayle is hailed as one of the most destructive as well as entertaining batters to have ever played the game of cricket.
Apart from giving numerous batting performances for West Indies’ national cricket team, Chris Gayle has also given tremendous performances while playing for different franchises in T20 leagues around the world, including the Indian Premier League.
In fact, Gayle has some extraordinary records under his name in the league. He has smashed a record 357 sixes in 141 IPL innings, which is by far the most by a batter in the league. He also has the record of hitting the most sixes in a single IPL inning, which came after he smashed 17 sixes en route to a 175 not out for the RCB against the now-defunct Pune Warriors in 2013.
His 175 not out is still the highest individual score in tournament history to date. He is also the seventh-highest run-getter in IPL history having amassed 4965 runs from 142 games.
Chris Gayle, who will be turning 43 later this year but he is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, he has expressed his desire of making a comeback in the next season of the Indian Premier League.
On Monday, Gayle took to his social media and shared a series of videos on his Instagram story where he can be seen sweating it out in the gym with an intense workout session where he supposedly seems to have kept a personal trainer. Sharing the videos, Gayle wrote: “Work just start!! Let’s go. In prep for IPL next year!”
Here, check out the screenshots of the video:
