Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook model of 6 Machine by Chris Gayle, read by Leroy Osei-Bonsu.

‘If the ball’s there, hit it. Don’t be concerned in what might happen. Play for the glory. Play for the six’

Chris Gayle is the only guy to have ever strike a six off the first ball of the Test match. But then producing the impossible is an everyday respond for the Western Indies legend: the 1st man to smash a global T20 century, the first to hit a global Cup 200, the fastest about Six Machine: I CAN’T STAND Cricket … I Love It century in the annals of the game. He has hit doubly many T20 sixes as any additional guy and obtained two Test triple centuries. All this is normally delivered with cricket’s biggest bat and a straight bigger smile.

Off the pitch, millions follow him on Instagram and Twitter to catch a glimpse of a globe-trotting life spent in nightclubs just as much as nets, hot-tubs normally as helmets and pads. He takes on late, parties later, demolishes a king-size pile of pancakes and then strolls out to mangle another hapless bowling assault.

But carry out we really know him? Do we know what took a shy, skinny kid from a cramped tin-roofed shack in the dusty back again roads of Kingston, sharing a bed with three brothers and stealing vacant bottles to buy food, to the very top of the cricket globe – without losing himself on the way?

Outrageous and utterly first, this unputdowneable memoir will leave you reeling. Welcome to the globe of the Six Machine.