IPL 2018: 5 players who may cross 4000 IPL runs in 2018

#3 Chris Gayle (3626 runs)

Chris Gayle, the West Indian is the best T20 batsman in the world. He is the only player who has scored more than 11,000 runs in T20s and has scored 20 T20 centuries. No other batsman has even managed to score 10 centuries in T20s and this is enough to define Gayle's capability as a T20 player.

Gayle who was a regular in the Bangalore team in the previous years was not retained by the franchise overseeing his declining form. He surprisingly went unsold on the first day of the auction, but Kings XI Punjab finally bought him at the end of Day 2.

Gayle is currently 38 years old and is nearing his retirement, which is one of the biggest reasons that none of the teams showed interest in him.

In the IPL he has played in 101 matches in which he has scored 3626 runs and is 374 runs short of the 4000 runs mark. He wasn't included in the playing XI in Punjab's opening game and the team may continue to exclude him until everything goes fine for them. Gayle may breach the milestone if he gets a few games this season which may turn out to be his last in the tournament.