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  • Published: 1 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241976685
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99
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Six Machine

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




The big-hitting cricket legend's funny, outrageous memoir

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 century in the history of the game. Off the pitch he is even more flamboyant: 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? Do we know what took a shy, skinny kid from a cramped tin-roofed shack in the dusty back streets of Kingston to the very top of the cricket world - without losing himself along the way? A story not just of sporting genius but of battling prejudice, this unputdowneable memoir will leave you reeling. Welcome to the world of the Six Machine.

  • Published: 1 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241976685
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

Praise for Six Machine

It feels like at any time, somewhere, Chris Gayle is hitting someone for six. There is hardly a record he does not own

Guardian

The Zlatan Ibrahimovic of cricket

Mirror

Hard hitting! Explosive! GET IT!

Kevin Pietersen