Chris Gayle reached 10,000 Twenty20 runs

IPL scores (Rajkot)

Royal Challengers: (20/20) 213-2 (Gayle 77, Kohli 64, Jadhav 38*, Head 30*)

Gujarat Lions: (20/20) 192-7 (McCullum 72, Kishan 39; Chahal 3-31)

Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 21 runs

Match report

Chris Gayle became the first batsman to reach 10,000 Twenty20 runs after making 77 for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League. 

The flamboyant 37-year-old West Indian has long been the standard bearer for the shortest format and reached the milestone in his 290th appearance, against Gujarat Lions in Rajkot.

Gayle has scored a remarkable 7,534 of those runs in fours and sixes, with 18 centuries, 61 fifties and a top score of 175 not out - all records in their own right.

Gayle began the match on 9,997 runs and reached five figures in less than spectacular fashion with three singles. He warmed to the task as things progressed, though, hitting seven sixes and five fours in his 38-ball stay.

RCB were put in to bat and while they were without the injured AB de Villiers, they were able to welcome back Gayle at the top of the order. 

Virat Kohli (64 from 50 balls) also made a half-century as the pair shared an opening stand of 122 before some more big hitting from Travis Head and Kedar Jadhav took RCB to 213-2 from their 20 overs.

Brendon McCullum (72 from 44 balls) spearheaded a valiant Gujarat charge but lacked the support needed to chase down such a formidable total, and, despite Ishan Kishan's late onslaught, the Lions ended up 21 short, on 192-7.