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  • Published: 2 June 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241978184
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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Six Machine

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




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

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Six Machine by Chris Gayle, read by Leroy Osei-Bonsu.

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: 2 June 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241978184
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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Praise for Six Machine

Hard hitting! Explosive! GET IT!

Kevin Pieterson

The closest football has to Chris Gayle is Zlatan Ibrahimovic, in terms of acts of preposterous genius

Mirror

He's the cleanest ball-striker I've played with or against. To see him do what he does is phenomenal

Kevin Pietersen

It feels like at any time, somewhere, Chris Gayle is hitting someone for six. There is hardly a record he does not own. If you're a spectator sit back and smile, if you're an administrator just shrug, and if you're the opposition put your hands together and pray

Guardian

When Gayle bats, fielders become spectators and spectators become fielders

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