Chris Gayle may have played his last international game given the theatrics by cricket’s showman and the send-off accorded by the Indian players at the end of a typically thunderous innings here today. Playing the way he always does, Gayle smashed 72 runs off 41 balls, punishing the Indian bowlers with five sixes and four boundaries in the third ODI.

After hitting one off Khaleel Ahmed straight to visiting skipper Virat Kohli, Gayle smiled as Indian players shook hands with him. Indian players even did Gayle’s typical jig with him.

Gayle threw his bat in the air, put his helmet on top of it and walked off the field. He then hurled the helmet up in the air and caught it while approaching the boundary ropes.