Chris Gayle hit six off first ball in Test: In the history of Test cricket, Chris Gayle of West Indies is the only player in the world who hit six off first ball in Test.

New Delhi: Ever since the introduction of T20 format in cricket, the style of batting has completely changed. Players try to hit fours and sixes from the first ball. In modern cricket it is called fearless batting. This is the reason why hitting a boundary on the first ball has now become a common thing in T20 cricket. To some extent, players show similar aggression in ODIs too, but on the contrary, the nature of Test cricket is such that the batsman first spends time at the crease and plays according to the decided strategy from session to session.

Because of this, many cricket fans find the Test format boring, but there are some players who have added excitement to the Test. One such name is West Indies legend Chris Gayle. Chris Gayle has been known as an explosive batsman. He has destroyed bowlers in all three formats of cricket. Because of this, many amazing records are also recorded in his name, but there is one record which was made for the first time by a batsman in Test cricket and it is unbroken even today.

What is Chris Gayle’s unique record in test?

Chris Gayle had achieved the feat of hitting a six on the first ball of the test match against Bangladesh in 2012. At that time Test cricket had completed 135 years. For the first time in the history of this format, a batsman has made a unique record of hitting a six on the very first ball of the match. Chris Gayle did this feat against Bangladeshi bowler Sohag Ghazi. Ghazi made his Test debut in this match played in Mirpur and the captain allowed him to bowl the first over of the match. In that over of Sohag Ghazi, the West Indies team had scored a total of 18 runs.

Who won the Mirpur test match?

Talking about this match, West Indies had won the match by 77 runs. In the match, West Indies, batting first, declared the innings after scoring 527 runs for 4 wickets. In response, Bangladesh also batted strongly and scored 556 runs. Bangladesh had a lead of 29 runs in the first innings. After this, Bangladesh scored 273 runs in its second innings, which gave Bangladesh a target of 245 runs to win the match, but West Indies won the match by bowling out host Bangladesh for 167 runs in the fourth innings.