Stats: Chris Gayle's record 100 against UAE in numbers

Chris Gayle began the West Indies’ campaign in the World Cup Qualifiers with a blistering century in their opening game. Taking on the likes of United Arab Emirates, Gayle struck a 91-ball 123 with seven fours and 11 maximums. The 37-year-old gave a perfect platform for his team to post a 350+ total as he fell at the score of 191/2 in the 29th over.

Stats and numbers that were recorded during Chris Gayle’s breezy innings against UAE:

11 – Number of different countries against which Chris Gayle scored an ODI century. He scored a century against Bangladesh, Canada, England, India, Kenya, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and now UAE in his maiden appearance against them.

He is the 4th player to score ODI centuries against as many as 11 different countries. Sachin Tendulkar scored against first nine full-member nations, Kenya and Namibia. Ricky Ponting also scored against nine full member countries, Scotland and Asia XI. Hashim Amla had centuries against Netherlands, Ireland and nine Test nations.

11 – Chris Gayle hit as many as 11 sixes during this innings. These are the joint 3rd most number of sixes by a player in an ODI inning for West Indies. Gayle hit 16 sixes during his double century against Zimbabwe while Xavier Marshall hit 12 sixes against Canada in 2008. Denesh Ramdin also hit 11 sixes during his 169-run knock against Bangladesh in 2014.

Gayle is only the 4th player to hit 10 and more sixes in an ODI inning twice. AB de Villiers, Martin Guptill and Rohit Sharma are the other three players with 10+ sixes in an ODI inning on multiple occasions.

23 – Number of centuries for Chris Gayle in the ODI format. He is the only West Indian with 20+ ODI centuries. His 23 hundreds are the 8th most for any player in this format. Gayle is also the 3rd slowest to score 23 ODI centuries. Only Kumar Sangakkara (377) and Sanath Jayasuriya (361) took more innings than Gayle’s 271 innings.

79 – Balls Gayle needed for his hundred in this game his 3rd fastest in the ODI format. He scored a 69-ball hundred against Zimbabwe in 2003 and a hundred in 70 deliveries against Canada in 2008. Gayle also became the first West Indies batsman to hit three ODI centuries in less than 80 balls. Brian Lara and Sir Viv Richards scored two ODI tons in less than 80 deliveries.