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275 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, portraits Summary: Chris Gayle is the only man to have ever hit a six off the first ball of a Test match. He is the first man to smash an international T20 century, the first to hit a World Cup 200 and the fastest century in the history of the game. He has hit twice as many T20 sixes as any other man and scored two Test triple centuries. 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 king-size pile of pancakes and then strolls out to mangle another hapless bowling attack. But do we really know him? This memoir traces 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. (From publisher)