Ten days after Gayle announced his intention to retire after the World Cup, the West Indies cricketer smashed 162 off 97 balls.

Gayle ticked off a shopping list of targets — 50 up in 32 balls, a 10,000th one-day run and then his hundred in 55 balls.

Gayle is one of a handful of players who would not shirk from chasing 419 and the 39-year-old Jamaican picked up Buttler's baton with a ton of his own.

Gayle announced that he would retire from the one-day international cricket (ODI) after the World Cup which is slated to be held in England and Wales, later this year.

Veteran opener Chris Gayle also chipped in with 50 from 63 deliveries, while Shai Hope made 33.

Windies surpassed the previous record of 22 set by New Zealand against them in January 2014.

The tourists were given a target of 361 in the first ODI after Gayle ended his six-month exile from the team by hitting 12 sixes in a knock of 135.

Chris Gayle overtook Shahid Afridi in the list of most sixes hit in international cricket across all the formats.

England and West Indies will play five ODIs between February 20 and March 2.

Chris Gayle has hit 23 centuries in ODIs -- the most by any West Indian in one-day internationals.

Chris Gayle has so far played 284 ODIs and scored 9727 runs at an average of 37.12 for West Indies.

Also making his comeback to the squad is Ashley Nurse, who picked up a pectoral muscle injury during the fourth ODI against India in November 2018.

In the second ODI, Rohit scored 43 off 52 balls, which included two fours and two sixes each before he got dismissed by Aussie all-rounder Marcus Stoinis.

The jury found that Chris Gayle was defamed in Australian newspaper articles which claimed he had exposed himself indecently to a female masseur.

Yuvraj Singh, who managed just 65 runs at a poor average of 10.38 in the eight games last season, was bought at his base price of Rs 2 crore in the previous auction.

Ramdin said it was more disappointing that despite being the world T20 champions they could not perform well in the shortest format.

The team is already without the services of Chris Gayle and Sunil Narine though the likes of Kieron Pollard and Darren Bravo are here.

Big-hitting Kieran Pollard, middle-order batsman Darren Bravo and all-rounder Andre Russell have made a comeback into the T20 squad.

Gayle was elected captain by his teammates in his last match which touched his heart and he thanked them later for that.

Eight teams have formed some of the best combinations from a pool of 64 top cricketers in the players' draft for T10League.