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• <LI class=liSideBar sizset="232" sizcache="5">Chris Gayle became only the fourth batsman to score two triple centuries after Don Bradman (334 and 304), Brian Lara (375 and 400*) and Virender Sehwag (309 and 319). <LI class=liSideBar sizset="233" sizcache="5">Gayle went past Rohan Kanhai's 256 to become the West Indian batsman with the highest individual score in the subcontinent. <LI class=liSideBar sizset="234" sizcache="5">The triple hundred is the 24th overall and the tenth by a left hander. It was also the third triple hundred in Sri Lanka. <LI class=liSideBar>Gayle holds the record for the highest individual score against Sri Lanka, going past Younis Khan's 313. <LI class=liSideBar sizset="235" sizcache="5">Gayle's 333 is the highest away score by a West Indies batsman, surpassing Viv Richards' 291 at the Oval in 1976. <LI class=liSideBar sizset="236" sizcache="5">.Gayle's knock is the highest individual score by a visiting batsman in Sri Lanka, going past Stephen Fleming's 274. <LI class=liSideBar>With nine sixes in his innings, Gayle holds the record for the most sixes by a West Indian batsman in a Test innings. <LI class=liSideBar sizset="237" sizcache="5">The 167 run stand between Brendan Nash and Gayle for the fourth wicket is the best for the West Indies against Sri Lanka and the seventh highest for the fourth wicket against Sri Lanka.
• This was Anjantha Mendis' third five wicket haul and second at Galle after his 6 for 117 against India in July 2008. Of his 56 wickets, 46 have come at home at an average of 29.23. His away record is very poor with ten wickets at 46.80.

[Mosiah]

wow! all that for medium level Chris Gayle!

Cahna mi say!