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Chris Gayle Test record against New Zealand

2002-06-21 – 2014-06-26 · Available official international scorecards

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The record at a glance

This study covers 12 Test matches against New Zealand with recorded batting or bowling figures: 21 batting innings and 11 bowling innings. Matches with no batting or bowling entry for this player are outside this sample.

Batting runs and dismissals; bowling runs conceded and wickets
DisciplineInningsRunsWickets / outsAverageStrike rate
Batting211,2581966.2162.27
Bowling11295932.7789.44

Batting average = runs ÷ dismissals; batting strike rate = runs per 100 balls. Bowling average = runs conceded ÷ wickets; bowling strike rate = legal balls per wicket. Rates require fully recorded inputs. A hyphen means unrecorded; N/A means a zero denominator.

Bowling economy: 2.19 runs per six legal balls. Legal balls recorded: 805.

Batting milestones in this sample: 3 centuries and 7 scores from 50 to 99. Balls faced: 2,020.

CAREER BY FORMAT

How the record developed

Available scorecards

Formats are shown separately. These totals cover published scorecards against the twelve national teams; they can differ from complete official career records.

Test

Test · Runs by year
  1. 2002280 runs
  2. 2006235 runs
  3. 2008305 runs
  4. 2012230 runs
  5. 2014208 runs
Exact yearly figures · 5 seasons
Test archive totals by year
YearMatBat innsRunsHSAvgSR100s50s4s6sBFBowl innsWktsBowl avgEconBowl SR
2014362088041.6074.020226728120N/A2.55N/A
20122423015076.6672.101125731900N/AN/AN/A
200823305197101.6655.65113685483332.662.2288.00
2006352358247.0058.89023623993621.162.3853.16
20022328020493.3359.191141247330N/A1.26N/A

Home, away and neutral conditions

Setting follows the recorded host country. Unknown locations are retained as unknown; venue names alone are not guessed.

Opposition record by match setting
SettingMatchesBat innsRunsBat avgBat SRBowl innsWicketsBowl avg
Home71371865.2766.9150N/A
Away5854067.5057.026925.00
SCORECARD MILESTONES

Career timeline

Milestones found in available scorecards. The first recorded appearance here is not necessarily the international debut.

  1. First available scorecard

    Test v New Zealand · Kensington Oval

  2. Highest recorded innings · 204 runs

    Test v New Zealand · National Cricket Stadium, St George's

  3. Best recorded bowling · 4/71

    Test v New Zealand · Eden Park

  4. Latest available scorecard

    Test v New Zealand · Kensington Oval

Recent recorded innings

Scorecards supporting this opposition study
DateVenueInningsRunsBallsWicketsConceded
2014-06-26Kensington Oval41133--
2014-06-26Kensington Oval24253--
2014-06-16Queen's Park Oval48046--
2014-06-16Queen's Park Oval3--029
2014-06-16Queen's Park Oval2111--
2014-06-08Sabina Park41013--
2014-06-08Sabina Park264125--
2014-06-08Sabina Park1--017
2012-08-02Sabina Park489--
2012-08-02Sabina Park2855--
2012-07-25Sir Vivian Richards Stadium46449--
2012-07-25Sir Vivian Richards Stadium2150206--
2008-12-19McLean Park4--023
2008-12-19McLean Park3197396--
2008-12-19McLean Park2--033
2008-12-19McLean Park13449--
2008-12-11University Oval, Dunedin274103--
2008-12-11University Oval, Dunedin1--342
2006-03-25McLean Park13027--
2006-03-17Basin Reserve368145--

This opposition study uses available scorecards in Cricket Wicket’s twelve-team publication scope. It is a dated archive analysis, not a claim of complete career coverage. Read the coverage and calculation method.