In 85 matches for RCB from 2011-17, Gayle scored 3,163 runs at an average of 43.33 and a strike rate of over 152, with five centuries and 19 fifties. His best score is 175*.
Recalling his first interaction with Virat, de Villiers said that he thought that back then the Indian batter was "cocky" and "arrogant" but as he knew him in later years, he realised that Virat was a different person