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'Don't Blush, Tom': Chris Gayle Clearly Has No Regrets Over The Mel McLaughlin Saga (click for more)

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howzdat wrote: 1) Josh Hazlewood (Aus)
2) Usman Khawaja (Aus)
3) AB de Villiers (SA)
4) Hashim Amla (SA)
5) Kagiso Rabada (SA)
6) Rangana Herath (SL)
7) Chris Gayle (WI)
8) David Warner (Aus)
9) Steven Finn (ENG)
10) Joe Root (ENG)
11) R Ashwin (IND)

AFRO wrote:LOL same old story Howzdat!!!..when him come up against anyone but a club team "world boss" GAWN!!! .

howzdat wrote:World T20 Warm-up Matches, India v West Indies at Kolkata, Mar 10, 2016

India 185/6 (20/20 ov)
West Indies 36/1 (3.3 ov);
CH Gayle b Bumrah 20 (11b 3x4 1x6) SR: 181.81

Gayle is really excited about his first book.
"I hope it can reach far and wide, through cricket and beyond, for there are stories to tell and secrets I've waited a long time to share. Being me is fun. I don't believe in boring. And 'Six Machine' is me, in every way," he says

A type of Australian cricket has broken the world record for the most frequent sex, a new study shows.

Male scaly crickets (Ornebius aperta) can copulate more than 50 times in three to four hours with the same female, according to research in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

The research suggests that "extreme repeated mating" can develop in response to female-imposed limits on copulation.

In this case, the limit is due to female crickets removing sperm and eating it about three seconds after insertion.

The new world record puts the cricket ahead of the previous record holders, lions and tigers. Tigers can mate up to 50 times a day over five or six days.

Scientists monitored the sexual behaviour of crickets in the laboratory. Crickets were captured from colonies at the University of Toronto and at the gardens of the University of Western Australia. The scientists then reared the crickets in isolation to make sure they were virgins.

The researchers measured sperm counts per copulation, then compared final sperm counts in both the test subject crickets and in females caught in the wild that mated in natural conditions.

At times, scientists stroked female crickets in the lab with the tip of a soft paintbrush to distract them from eating sperm.

Evolution made me do it

Professor Darryl Gwynne, a biologist at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and one of the paper's authors, found that male crickets evolved a way to combat the female's hunger.

Instead of investing all their sperm in one event, the male crickets transferred very small amounts of sperm many times.

Sperm counts from a single copulation measured at 5 to 225, far below the tens of thousands of sperm that crickets of other species usually transferred in a single copulation.

The scientists next measured the amount of sperm that females stored after mating and found that counts were high, between 10,223 to 23,804 sperm.

Gwynne said that females mated with other males and some of the stored sperm eventually does fertilise their eggs, despite their seemingly counterproductive eating habits.

"We know from other studies with crickets that females can get nutrition from the proteinaceous cases that form the outside capsule of the spermatophore [sperm-filled package] so there is probably food value in eating lots of spermatophores," Gwynne said.

"Sperm may also provide some [additional] nutrition when 'taken orally', especially given the vast number of spermatophores, around 240, the average female eats."

A record breaker

Assistant Professor William Brown, a biologist at the State University of New York at Fredonia, agreed that the Australian scaly cricket had probably set a world record.

Brown said that conflict over sperm use was common in the animal kingdom and had led to some unique strategies, particularly among insects.

Males from certain katydid and other cricket species, he said, even created a "courtship gift" of food, secreted from their dorsal glands, that allowed females to eat while being inseminated.

"Like many other crickets, the male Australian scaly cricket has faced the same problem of sperm removal by females, but has evolved a very different and very unique solution; rather than distracting females away from the spermatophore, or physically preventing females from consuming it, they've reduced spermatophore size to pass all of its contents within the brief three-second window before the female can remove it, and they do it over and over and over again," Brown said.

"In this case, the result is extreme mating rates, unrivalled by any other species in the animal kingdom, as far as we know.