# Six Machine

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- Book: [Six Machine](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-gayle/six-machine) ([Six Machine.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-gayle/six-machine.md))
- Authors: [Chris Gayle](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-gayle)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4125-635-0
- Published: 2016-06-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.