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Chris Gayle Test record against South Africa

2001-03-09 – 2010-06-26 · Available official international scorecards

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The record at a glance

This study covers 16 Test matches against South Africa with recorded batting or bowling figures: 30 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
Batting301,3593045.3060.21
Bowling11338937.5591.88

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: 2.45 runs per six legal balls. Legal balls recorded: 827.

Batting milestones in this sample: 3 centuries and 5 scores from 50 to 99. Balls faced: 2,257.

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. 2001326 runs
  2. 200334 runs
  3. 2004332 runs
  4. 2005329 runs
  5. 200795 runs
  6. 200884 runs
  7. 2010159 runs
Exact yearly figures · 7 seasons
Test archive totals by year
YearMatBat innsRunsHSAvgSR100s50s4s6sBFBowl innsWktsBowl avgEconBowl SR
2010351597331.8060.4502221263214.001.3318.00
200812844642.0086.5900659700N/AN/AN/A
200712956647.50133.80011817100N/AN/AN/A
20053532931765.8061.26103835375827.372.0380.87
20042433211683.0075.452158244030N/A4.30N/A
200312342617.0094.4400803600N/AN/AN/A
20015103268132.6040.090153081310N/A3.00N/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
Home112081440.7050.468925.11
Away51054554.5084.6230N/A
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 South Africa · Bourda

  2. First century in this archive · 116 runs

    Test v South Africa · Newlands

  3. Best recorded bowling · 4/50

    Test v South Africa · Queen's Park Oval

  4. Highest recorded innings · 317 runs

    Test v South Africa · Antigua Recreation Ground

  5. Latest available scorecard

    Test v South Africa · Kensington Oval

Recent recorded innings

Scorecards supporting this opposition study
DateVenueInningsRunsBallsWicketsConceded
2010-06-26Kensington Oval31023--
2010-06-26Kensington Oval2--02
2010-06-26Kensington Oval12019--
2010-06-18Warner Park25084--
2010-06-10Queen's Park Oval473106--
2010-06-10Queen's Park Oval2631--
2010-06-10Queen's Park Oval1--12
2008-01-02Newlands33848--
2008-01-02Newlands14649--
2007-12-26St George's Park32922--
2007-12-26St George's Park16649--
2005-04-29Antigua Recreation Ground3--03
2005-04-29Antigua Recreation Ground2317483--
2005-04-29Antigua Recreation Ground1--165
2005-04-21Kensington Oval3520--
2005-04-21Kensington Oval2--385
2005-04-21Kensington Oval103--
2005-04-08Queen's Park Oval4--016
2005-04-08Queen's Park Oval3116--
2005-04-08Queen's Park Oval2--450

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.