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Six Machine

Six Machine

I Don't Like Cricket... I Love It

by Chris Gayle
Paperback
Publication Date: 02/06/2016

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If the ball's there, hit it. Don't worry about what might happen. Play for the glory. Play for the six.

Chris Gayle is the only man to have ever hit a six off the first ball of a Test Match. But then producing the impossible is an everyday act for the West Indies legend: the first man to smash an international T20 century, the first to hit a World Cup 200, the fastest 100 in the history of the game. He has hit twice as many T20 sixes as any other man and scored two Test triple centuries. All this is delivered with cricket's biggest bat and an even bigger smile.

Off the pitch, millions follow him on Instagram and Twitter to catch a glimpse of a globe-trotting life spent in nightclubs as much as nets, hot-tubs as often as helmets and pads. He plays late, parties later, demolishes a kingsize stack of pancakes and then strolls out to mangle another hapless bowling attack.

But do we really know him? Do we know what took a shy, skinny kid from a cramped tin-roofed shack in the dusty back streets of Kingston, sharing a bed with three brothers and stealing empty bottles to buy food, to the very top of the cricket world? This is a story not just of sporting genius but of battling prejudice; of coming from nothing to everything and yet not losing yourself along the way.

Outrageous and utterly original, this unputdownable memoir will leave you reeling. Welcome to the world of the Six Machine.

ISBN:
9780241256343
9780241256343
Category:
Autobiography: sport
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-06-2016
Publisher:
Penguin UK
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Edition:
1st Edition
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
234x155x22mm
Weight:
0.42kg
Chris Gayle

Chris Gayle captained the West Indies from 2007 to 2010, when he was the first ever player to hit a six off the first ball of a Test match, and then became one of only four players to score two triple centuries at Test level.

He has played for 14 teams across seven countries and five continents, and is now the world's finest exponent of the thrilling T20 game.

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