THE WEEK IN NUMBERS: BUTTLER'S BRILLIANCE, GAYLE'S 10K, AND WHO GIVES A TOSS?

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10,074

Runs scored by Chris Gayle in Twenty20 cricket.

Gayle smashed 77 from 38 deliveries for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Gujarat Lions, 62 of which came in boundaries. Through his T20 career, 74.79 per cent of Gayle’s runs have been scored in boundaries.

Most runs in T20 cricket:

• Chris Gayle: 10,074 runs at 40.62, 18 hundreds. Strike rate 149.51.
• Brendon McCullum: 7,596 runs at 31.51, 7 hundreds. Strike rate 138.31.
• Brad Hodge: 7,338 runs at 36.87, 2 hundreds. Strike rate 131.27.
• Kieran Pollard: 7,087 runs at 30.54, 0 hundreds. Strike rate 151.72.
• David Warner: 7,156 runs at 35.42, 5 hundreds. Strike rate 143.40.

*Stats correct as of April 20

108x67x40

The maximum dimensions (width, depth, edges in mm) of bats as set out in Law 5 of the Laws of Cricket 2017 Code.

Law 8.3.4 has been altered to prevent bail-related injuries akin to Mark Boucher’s. Bails will be tethered to stumps in order to restrict how far they can travel once dislodged.

All changes can be viewed here.

131

The combined number of first-class tons Shivnarine Chanderpaul (74) and Kumar Sangakkara (57) have notched up.

Their most-recent triples were served up at The Oval as Surrey and Lancashire played out a draw. Chanderpaul was rarely troubled en route to 182 - only bad light could stop him on day one - although evidently the dim was not affecting Shiv, he was seeing it like a cantaloupe. Sanga followed suit in Surrey’s second dig with 136, his 5^th first-class century.

0

The number of coins tossed on Friday morning. In all nine County Championship matches, the visiting side elected to bowl first.

77

Jos Buttler’s highest T20 score.

199 to win was the equation for Mumbai Indians after Hashim Amla’s unbeaten 104 had taken Kings XI Punjab to 198 for 4.

Enter Jos. The England keeper crushed 77 off 37, hitting seven fours and five sixes.

199 in 15.3 overs marked Mumbai Indians’ highest IPL run chase.

1999

The second round of County Championship fixtures marked the first time since 1999 that all 18 first-class counties were playing Championship cricket simultaneously.