CH Gayle

The arrival

CH Gayle's first BBL season was 2011-12, with Sydney Thunder.

That first season brought 6 matches, 232 runs and 1 wicket at 6.84 an over.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2015-16, for Melbourne Renegades: 260 runs at an average of 32.5, striking at 147.7 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 127.7, with 1 fifty, and a highest score of 56.

Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2011-12: 232 runs at a strike rate of 148.7, 28 runs per hundred balls quicker than the BBL as a whole that year.

Club by club

2011-12 to 2012-13, Sydney Thunder. 12 matches, 356 runs and 5 wickets.

2015-16, Melbourne Renegades. 8 matches and 260 runs.

2 spells with two clubs in all. The longest was with Sydney Thunder, 2011-12 to 2012-13. 2013-14 and 2014-15 are missing from the record: seasons without a BBL appearance.

Bat, ball and method

Across the career, CH Gayle struck at 131.6. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 122.0, so CH Gayle scored about 10 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 70% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 34 fours and 49 sixes.

With the ball, 5 wickets in 156 deliveries, at 6.62 runs an over against a league rate of 7.07 for the same seasons: 0.45 an over cheaper than the typical bowler of the time.

The legacy

CH Gayle made 20 BBL appearances, the last for Melbourne Renegades in 2015-16.