Meet player who lived in slums but stays in Rs 20 crore palace now, has net worth of…, was Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan teammate
This international cricketer was a teammate of Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan in IPL and is the ninth richest cricketer in the world.
Now we have all about ‘rags to riches’ stories of sportsperson but none may perchance be bigger than this cricketer, who dominated world and T20 cricket including the Indian Premier League (IPL) for greater than a decade. From spending his childhood in non-descript slums to living in a Rs 20 crore palatial home now – which even houses a restaurant!
We're talking about the life story of ‘Universe Boss’ Chris Gayle who shattered a superior deal of records in his international and IPL career and turned Forty 5 last week. No longer many learn about Gayle’s humble foundation from the slums of a neighborhood also is termed Rollington Town on the outskirts of Kingston in Jamaica and a couple of mile to the west of famous Windies ground – Sabina Park.
The house where Gayle changed into raised with four other siblings remains standing there and appears comparable to it changed into decades ago. A single-storey property product of blocks, with wooden boards or flapping cloths acting as windows, corrugated zinc for a roof, held in place with lumps of concrete. Even that changed into split into three sections and occupied by three families!
Chris Gayle’s house in Jamaica where he grew up along with his 5 siblings.
– The success story of the Universe Boss is inspiring! p.c.twitter.com/ttLJZ4Qdi2
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) September 21, 2024
It’s amazing to peer that from these foundation, Gayle became what's often called the ‘Universe Boss’ and currently has net worth of over Rs 200 crore – the ninth richest cricketer on this planet. Gayle represented West Indies in 103 Test matches and scored 7,214 runs with 15 hundreds and 37 fifties with a top-score of 333. He played in 301 ODI matches and notched up 10,480 runs with 25 hundreds and fifty four fifties and a top-score of 215. In Seventy 9 T20Is, Gayle managed to score 1,899 runs with 2 hundreds and 14 fifties.
In IPL, Gayle turned out for three team – Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), seven seasons with Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore and 4 seasons with Shikhar Dhawan’s Punjab Kings or Kings XI Punjab. He managed to score four,965 runs in IPL with six hundreds and 31 fifties at a strike-rate of 148.Ninety six.
Gayle now stays in a 3-storey palatial home in Kingston, Jamaica which is reportedly worth over Rs 20 crore. This luxurious home of Gayle has a bar, a sports zone, a gaming zone, and numerous swimming pools.
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It also has an in-house mini-theatre where the cricketer enjoys along with his family and friends. Gayle’s villa has 9 bedrooms and the cricketer has also admitted that the house even has a strip club!
Gayle is married to Natasha Berridge, a Caribbean fashion clothier, in 2009 and lives along with his wife and daughter Kris-Allyna Gayle.
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