Cricket News: Chris Gayle to retire from ODIs after 2019 World Cup

West Indies' star batsman Chris Gayle has announced that he will retire from One-day Internationals following the World Cup 2019 in England and Wales this summer. Gayle made the announcement on Sunday just ahead of a Windies practice session leading up to the ODI series against England at Kensington Oval in Barbados. He was listed among the Windies squad for the first two ODIs. The West Indies Cricket took to Twitter to announce the retirement of the 39-year-old left-hander. The Jamaican so far has played 284 ODIs in which he scored 9727 runs at an average of 37.12, and hit 23 hundreds and 49 fifties. His highest score was 215 against Zimbabwe at Canberra during the 2015 World Cup. It was the first double hundred in the World Cup. He shared a 372-run stand with Marlon Samuels during that game - the biggest partnership in the history of the World Cup. Gayle thus became the only player in world cricket to hit a triple hundred in Tests, a double hundred in ODIs and a hundred in Twenty20 Internationals. Popularly known as the 'Universe Boss,' Gayle has played in 103 Tests and 56 T20Is too.