Twitter Reactions: Chris Gayle breaches 10,000 run mark in T20s

Chris Gayle became the first ever batsman to complete 10,000 T20 runs. The big moment came in RCB’s away game against Gujarat Lions when Gayle played one down to third man for a single. There was no celebration by the big man on reaching the milestone as he looked keen to contribute for the struggling RCB side.

The Jamaican has been an iconic cricketer in the T20 format since making his debut in 2005. He has operated as a T20 freelance playing in many T20 leagues around the world. The 37-year old has got his runs at an unbelievable strike rate of 149. He has the most centuries in this format too, a total of 18 tons in 290 games.

Interestingly, Gayle played tonight’s encounter in place of the injured AB De Villiers. He has been struggling to get going of late and has already sat out twice this year so far.

The ‘universal-boss’ as Gayle calls himself, is too good a player to miss out for too long and will get going sooner rather than later. He loves playing the IPL and has more than 3,400 runs in this league so far including 5 centuries and 20 half-centuries.

Gayle has a number of records to his name in his glittering T20 career. His tally of 737 sixes is the highest amongst batsmen with Pollard being second with 459 sixes.

The fact that he is so much ahead of his peer emphasizes his greatness in this format. His records will stand for a very long time and will take a lot of doing to break them.

The left-hander has played 50 T20 for his country scoring 1519 runs which include 2 hundreds. He was instrumental in his country’s two World T20 triumphs in 2012 and 2016.

April 18 in cricket history:

1986 – Miandad's last-ball six
1992 – SA's readmission
1994 – Lara 375
2008 – McCullum 158*
2017 – Gayle 10k

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) April 18, 2017

Well done to @henrygayle on 10000 t20 runs. Biggest hitter in the game by a long way. #respect

— David Warner (@davidwarner31) April 18, 2017

10k RUNS FOR GAYLE. Big enough for me to use ALL CAPS.

But for him to make it big from here, Tino Best gotta get into his ear#GLvRCB

— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) April 18, 2017

18th April:

2008: #IPL commences; McCullum registers highest individual score of 158*
2017: Gayle becomes first to reach 10K runs#GLvRCB

— Deepu Narayana (@deeputalks) April 18, 2017

10000 T20 runs for Chris Gayle…. first to do so in this format!
Scored most runs for….
3283* RCB
1519 WI
1452 Jamaica Tallawahs#GLvRCB

— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) April 18, 2017

10,000 T20 runs for Chris Gayle pic.twitter.com/0KXd0HB7sP

— Peter Miller (@TheCricketGeek) April 18, 2017

Chris Gayle's performance for each team in T20 cricket: (Till his 10,000th run in T20s)#GLvRCB pic.twitter.com/3vxPCZvs4G

— Umang Pabari (@UPStatsman) April 18, 2017

History in Gujarat
Ahmedabad(87):SMG became 1st person to reach 10k Test runs
Rajkot:Gayle becomes 1st player to score 10k T20 runs#GLvRCB

— Sarang Bhalerao (@bhaleraosarang) April 18, 2017

1987: Gavaskar 1st man to 10,000 Test runs

2001: SRT 1st man to 10,000 ODI runs

2017: #ChrisGayle 1st man to 10,000 T20 runs#GLvRCB #IPL pic.twitter.com/PyJvto0Fl4

— Chinmay Jawalekar? (@CricfreakTweets) April 18, 2017

Massive congratulations to @henrygayle on 10000 T20runs. What a player he has been! @RCBTweets

— Michael Clarke (@MClarke23) April 18, 2017

Chris Gayle: 10,000 T20 runs. An immense achievement by a colossus of a cricketer. 44.16% have come in sixes; 30.56% in fours. #IPL

— Freddie Wilde (@fwildecricket) April 18, 2017

The #UniverseBoss doesn't stop breaking records! #chrisgayle is the first man to score 10,000 runs in T20 cricket! #Legend #PlayBold #GLvRCB pic.twitter.com/IveVzxwx2O

— Royal Challengers (@RCBTweets) April 18, 2017

First to score 10,000 runs:

Tests – Gavaskar (1987)
ODIs – Tendulkar (2001)
T20s – Gayle (2017)

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) April 18, 2017

First man in history to 10,000 T20 runs. Didn't think this would ever happen back in 2003. Congrats Dark & Stormy. @henrygayle #IPL

— Arjun Ashok (@arj_90) April 18, 2017

1 – @henrygayle has become the first batsman to reach 10,000 T20 runs. Royalty. pic.twitter.com/km3gbujG2j

— OptaJim (@OptaJim) April 18, 2017

First to 10,000 FC runs:

FC – WG Grace (24 Jul 1873)
ListA – Glenn Turner (15 Jan 1983)
T20s – Chris Gayle (18 Apr 2017)

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) April 18, 2017