Chris Gayle slams IPL record 175* for RCB vs PWI on Apr 23, 2013; watch video

It had been two years since Chris Gayle had debuted for Royal Challengers Bangalore and West Indian began his journey towards becoming a bonafide T20 superstar. He scored two hundreds in IPL 2011 and one in IPL 2012, but what he did on April 23, 2013 is likely to never be repeated in history of game. Thursday marked 7th anniversary of Chris Gayle scoring an outlandish 175* against erstwhile Pune Warriors India. Let us have a look back at greatest T20 innings of all time. 

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Chris Gayle 175: Chris Gayle decides to break all T20 records, Gaylestorm hits Bengaluru

Royal Challengers Bangalore were hosting Pune Warriors India during Match 31 of IPL 2013. A slight rain delay took place but rain subsided soon eugh for play to start. Aaron Finch won toss for Warriors and chose to bowl first and little did he kw how costly would that decision turn out to be.

Tilakaratne Dilshan opened batting for RCB with Chris Gayle and Pune mand to keep first over calm by only giving away 3 runs. second over from Ishwar Pandey was when Chris Gayle decided that he was going to accelerate. That over went for 21 runs and Gayle never looked back. In fifth over, he hit Mitchell Marsh for 28 runs and brought up his fifty in 17 balls. With this, he equalled Adam Gilchrist's record for n-fastest IPL fifty but Gayle was t done yet.

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Chris Gayle 175: How many sixes are too many sixes?

In seventh over, Gayle smashed Ali Murtaza for 17 runs. Gayle's spectacular smashing of ball forced PWI captain Aaron Finch to try his hand at bowling himself. Gayle made Finch regret as he smashed Australian for 29 runs in eighth over of innings.

Gayle was on 96 off 29 balls in ninth over when he was facing a free hit from Ashok Dinda. Dinda bowled a full toss and Gayle launched it into orbit. Chinnaswamy was filled with elation as Chris Gayle had just set an outlandish world record for fastest century in T20 cricket. Chris Gayle continued to smash PWI bowlers through remaining innings and ended up breaking Brendon McCullum's record for highest score in T20 and IPL history.

Gayle ended with 175* and RCB got mselves to 263, highest team total in history of IPL. PWI were where close in ir reply and team lost match by 130 runs. Here are highlights of historic Chris Gayle 175 innings, that included 17 massive sixes.

(Video courtesy: BCCI)

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RCB were t able to qualify for playoffs in IPL 2013 and ended up fifth. Chris Gayle went on to play for team till 2017 and was n released. In 2018, he was picked up by KXIP and has continued to play for team.

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