DOES GAYLE REALLY WANT TO PLAY FOR THE WEST INDIES
When the West Indies officially begin their tour of Bangladesh in a couple weeks’ time it will be about 1o months since opener Chris Gayle last represented the region at the highest form of the game. In those 10 months Gayle has been ignored by West Indies selectors and especially so after he lashed out at the West Indies Cricket Board last April for leaving out the senior players for the series against Pakistan.
Gayle, while being interviewed on KLAS blasted the board, the coach Otis Gibson and CEO Dr. Ernest Hilaire. Since that time Gayle has had a couple meetings with the board – one that was a total disaster, the other that was reportedly a lot more amicable. According to media reports coming out of those meetings, Gayle was being asked to retract statements he made on KLAS, especially those about the coach Otis Gibson. Gayle has reportedly said he will not and you know what, I don’t blame him.
People really don’t need to like each other to work with each other and apparently there is no love lost between the opening batsman and the no-nonsense coach. And if he truly feels the way he does about the things he said about Gibson, it would be disingenuous of Gayle to retract statements that truly reflects how he feels. I feel the board’s response would be to have the two iron out their personal differences and work with what both can live with.
However, one gets the feeling that Gibson is not keen on Gayle returning to the squad even if he does relent and apologizes or retracts his statements. Sources close to the situation have suggested that Gayle is seen as a cancer to the team in many ways and the board would rather do away with him entirely. What is critical is that while Dr. Hilaire might not necessarily be in Gayle’s corner, according to media reports, he is willing to overlook those comments.
In the meantime, the WICB has urged Gayle to stop making disparaging remarks about the board on his Twitter page, a fair request given the fact that it is hardly sensible to keep bashing the organisation that one works for. It’s not good for business.
That idea is somehow lost on Gayle, however, as just this week following the loss of his Indian Premier League team the Bangalore Royal Challengers to the Chevrolet Cavaliers in this season’s opening match Gayle tweeted about the inconsistency of the WICB selection policy and in a subsequent tweet, called the WICB corrupt. Now, either Gayle is a slow learner or he just doesn’t care. Refusing to retract previously made statements is one thing but what sense does it make to keep making those statements when he fully well knows that they are among the main points of contention between him and the board?
Gayle knows he doesn’t need to play for the West Indies to continue earning a very good living from the sport. In addition to re-signing for the Royal Challengers Bangalore after his incredible performances for them last season, Gayle has also signed to play Big Bash Cricket in Australia, a deal worth north of US$250,000 and he recently signed to play with the Dolphins in the South African domestic T20 league starting next February. And as long as he can hit the ball as hard as he does and with the consistency that he displayed for the Challengers last season, he will continue to demand top dollar from the T20 leagues across the world so he wont starve.
But what baffles me is that Gayle continues to do the things that he knows is going to keep him out of the West Indies team. Perhaps this is a demonstration of this faux bravado that Jamaican men seem intent on displaying these days no matter how ridiculous it is, considering that in this particular case, Gayle does not hold the handle of the knife.
I mean, this is a Chris Gayle who called for Caricom to intervene in his case when it became apparent that the WICB was not going to budge from its position not to allow him to resume playing for the West Indies, something he claims he so badly wants to do. His actions, however, would suggest that he is no longer interested.
Perhaps he is realizing how much money he is losing by not representing the West Indies or something else that he is yet to reveal to the public. He says he wants to represent the region but he continues to insult the board. None of it makes sense. The most I can make of it is that Gayle wants to have his cake and eat it too but life doesn’t work like that.
As bad as the board is and has been and as poor as they have been in dealing with player issues like this situation with Gayle, their request that he not continue to air the region’s dirty laundry in public is not an unreasonable one. It’s easy to blame the board for the ills of West Indies cricket but let’s face it the members of the board are not the only ones that need attitude adjustment.
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We all need to speak out against this corrupt and evil boys managing West Indies cricket. I call them boys because that is exactly how they are behaving. They have malicious intentions against Chris Gayle. They are no good for West Indies cricket. Our cricket has suffered tremendously under these idiots. The problem for us is that they are punishing the wrong people, the players that actually make it possible for them to have a job, for which I daresay that they are totally incompetent. We need a new coach, a new CEO, bring back Gayle, bring back Taylor, bring back Sarwan, appoint a capable skipper and lets get on with West Indies cricket. Otherwise, the players should start withdrawing their services and look to play cricket elsewhere.
YES!
Chris Gayle needs to understand that in professional sport, an active player does not criticize the head coach. That level of indiscipline is never tolerated anywhere. Ask Chris to find an example of player criticism of a coach in any of the sports leagues we know. Shane Warne did not criticize his coach at Australia until well after he had retired even though it is apparent that the resentment was there for years. Let me attempt to help Chris though. While he should not take back his statements, he should offer an apology letter in which he acknowledges that criticizing a coach while on active duty is unacceptable. Chris, come on, be a Big Man and write an apology letter to Otis. West Indies Cricket needs both of you. Also, you will earn more money from Cricket if the Windies return to Number 1 in all formats of the game notwithstanding all you make today from the 20/20 leagues. Actually, by Global Sports standards you are underpaid – peanuts. Just ask your good friend Usain Bolt.
I do not get your reasoning, assuming that you want to improve West Indies cricket. On the other hand, I recognise the tactic. I grew up on a sugar estate and know the type that will grin and bear anything in order to ‘eat a food’. They dared not challenge the incompetence and corruption of the ‘system’.
Chris Gayle represents that necessary refusal to compromise, which must precede transformation. Enough is enough! We have tried getting the attention of the change-deaf West Indies Cricket Board. Now, someone has to stand up to them. But here is the thing, he cannot do this alone. He needs the support of all people who believes in West Indies Cricket. Cast out this lot, and get back to identifying honest talent and good management. No more politics and selection by personality and affiliation.
If Chris Gayle was the kind of person you all wanted him to be, he would be a sorry cricketer. I say, bat on Chris
Gayle. You are not out, in the eyes of the people who matter; the fans.
Rick Berns
Gayle has a Jamaican inborn emotion that cannot be substituted for representation of a region. He makes himself available for his country while he can, but he cannot allow his skills to trashed around by a region who curry favors issues for a set of players or official while while denying for others. Gayle does not want to be involved with losers, he knows how the Aussies and India plays, he matched their level with the WI team and knew right away the WI board of selectors are idiots they select by favoritism not skills.
I agree, the fact of the matter is that a lot of people work together who hat each others guts, yet they keep their personal diatribes behind closed doors where they belong. For Gayle to openly bash the coach who has hopes of coaching other teams and countries after his tenure with the WI comes to an end, as incompetent ‘user’ is unacceptable. Further more Gayle was the one who said he doesn’t really like test cricket and he wouldn’t be unhappy if it dies, why all of a sudden does he want to play the game that he doesn’t like. Finally no organisation can operate without the full commitment of each of its members, Gayle’s commitment is highly questionable since he has demonstrated in the past that he would choose the overseas T20 leagues over representing Jamaica and the WI in a heartbeat. Is this the guy Jamaicans or Caricom should be defending, please I think not.
What if Chris Gayle made this statement?
“To all my fans, members of the WICB and in particuilar to Coach Otis Gibson. I am indeed sorry that statements I have made in the recent past have prevented me from doing what I enjoy best, donning my whites and playing for the West Indies (please don’t mistake my use of the word donning as a pun on donnism. I use it as a verb; to put on)
While I maintain that I have not been treated well by the West Indies Administration, I might have been a bit too aggressive in my past statements and contributed thusly to this impasse. Coach Gibson who is a “do it my way” coach has a very difficult job trying to return the West Indies to the glory days. I want the same thing. He is a hard worker and there is much to admire in that. I am prepared to work under him. I will respect his methods and his decisions and he must in turn show me a similar degree of respect. I call on Coach Gibson and the WICB to now put behind us the rancor of the past 9 months, to work collegially and as a team so that we can go out full force and kick some butts. Coach Gibson, meeet mi up at Cuddy’s Thursday night mek mi buy you a Red Stripe and have a chat. Then mek wi leave together with a commitment fi mash up some cricket team. I am truly sorry about what I may have contributed to this discord. Let us now move on”
Damn it man, is it so hard for Chris Gayle to find some language that would bridge the gap with the WICB and Coach Gibson or does he require total victory on his and his terms alone in order to be back playing for the West Indies. If Chris Gayle cannot do that, then he is a smaller man than the man he purports to be. Done talk.
”Gayle knows he doesn’t need to play for the West Indies to continue earning a very good living from the sport”. Nothing more needs to be said.
I say kudos to Gayle. Make a living, I love to see you play. It is West Indies’ loss.They had better turn those newcomers and there suck-up captain into stars quickly or they are going to be broke because of the empty stadiums.
I am a strong supporter of Chris Gayle and while I affirm his no-nonsense attitude towards the erstwhile inept WICB, I am constrained to wholeheartedly support your balanced comments on whether he truly desires to represent his region. Perhaps those of his supporters who sit in “high places” should pull him aside and explain to him that candor while at times necessary, it has its time and place.
Could it be that Gayle has accepted he will not win in the Board room against the WICB and so he is use public media to fight his battle?
Lets face it many things happened before his interview on KLAS. Since the interview the WICB has been busy asking him to keep silent and retract but they have not taking back any of the negative comments they have put out there.
Very good article. Gayle is a hot pick on the T20 market, which is sure to expand further at the expense of ODI and Test cricket.
England is sure to come up with their own T20 extravaganza,adding to the tournaments in India, Australia and South Africa. With 4 tournaments per year and potential earnings @ US$ 250,000 per tournament, we can do the math when we compare his earnings in WI colours.
He has stated publicly his preference for T20 over the other forms of the game.
He needs to make an honest decision like Brett Lee and Lasith Malinga. He needs to move on gracefully.
No! No! He is too big and rich now and as always a black man knows how to bite the hand that feeds him. Remember Lawrence Rowe??
Gayle is a player and not an administrator, therefore, I believe he wants to play and this is what he does best play cricket.
He has reveled the corruption at the administrative level and they must make the changes it cannot be business as usual.
Both Chris and administration must apologize to the FANS and move on.
TO THE WRITER OF THIS MATTER RELATING TO CHRIS GAYLE & THE W.I CRICKET BOARD I MUST COMPLIMENT YOU FOR SUCH A BRILLIANT LETTER.I DO HOPE EVERYONE WITHIN THE ENTIRE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY ANE ELSEWHERE WOULD READ IT. TO BE HONEST AM A ADMIRER AND SUPPORTER OF CHRIS GAYLE AND AM VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH HIS BEHAVOUR AND ATTITUDE. I THINK MONEY AND CRICKET FAME HAS GONE TO HIS HEAD THUS PUSHING HIS BRAIN TO HIS EARS BLOCKING THE ENTRANCE SOME SENSE TRYING TO ENTER HIS CRAYNIUM…TO BE HONEST I THINK CHRIS GAYLE WANTS HIS HEAD SOAK. CAN SOMEONE KNOCK SOME SENSE INTO THAT BLOKE FOR GOD SAKE…VERY DISAPPOINTED I AM IN HIM..A VERY SAD FOR CARIBBEAN CRICKET ALL OVER THE WORLD WE ARE A WELL KNOW LAUGHING STOCK. THANKS TO GAYLE AND HIS CRONIES FOR INJURING CARIBBEAN CRICKET THE GAME WE ALL LOVE.
I fully support Chris Gayle’s no apology to coach Gibson. He Gibson, is an employee of the WICB who is willing to let Gayle play but he is telling them he is not working wit Gayle, who is more important to West Indies cricket right now. I say Otis Gibson needs to go or work with Gayle. It is all a friend thing going on between coach, captain and management.
In light of the previously offered arguements supporting Gayles chastizement, i”ll put forward a few points.
1 Chris Gayle loves cricket wholeheartedley. He loves West Indies cricket even more. If it were not so he would not have been so hurt by his none inclusion.
2 Chris Gayle is a generally an introverted person from his days at Excelsior High School to now.He doesnt readily wear his heart on his sleeve. His outburst to KLAS and the British media was as a result of “Pressure Bussing pipe”.
3 How could anyone doubt Chris Gayles commitment to TEST cricket when he has demonstrated, certainly over the last five years strict focuss, resulting in a 40 odd percent average? He is one of a handful of players to have scored 300 runs more than once.
4 Chris gayle is a fearce competitor please do not let his generally aloof appearance fool you. He absolutely hates to loose! His comments about not caring if Test cricket died were unfortunate but I suspect the British media snuck one in on him as is usually the case. Catch them while they are frustrated and at their wits end then fuel the fire. It has happened to greater than him and it will continue.Just ask Proffesor Hilary Beckles.
5 In February 2009 the West Indies Team aided by proper selection and the requisit spirit totally out classed a much higher English 1st team under Gayles leadership.Later that SAME YEAR the Team was deployed to face an adversary they just beat, in conditions totally suited to them because the WICB “needed” money! Needless to say we lost miserably because the team was not ready for the conditions. Members of the team including gayle were contracted to be elsewhere with the blessings of the said board.
Ladies and Gentlemen I could go on but time and space dose not allow.There is a fundamental issue with the administration of our cricket and therefore a problem with our players. Until we decide to meaningfully discuss and implement progressive legislation with the view of resuscitating, strengthening and growing our cricket the West Indies as a cricket power is DEAD!
@ Kenneth one thing i want to say is that you used to be the house slave, the yes-man type. As a Jamaican I 100 per cent agree with Chris Gayle; don’t take back no talk. This board as been wrecking West Indies cricket for years now and here you are talking about Chris is injuring and making West Indies cricket a laughing stock. Just in case you never noticed, West Indies cricket has been a laughing stock long before Chris Gayle started playing for the West Indies and I think he should resign from West Indies cricket and go play his cricket in the T20 format and make his money and leave it to the likes of Sammy and the rest of the West Indies regions, especially the lot from Barbados.
For far too long the WI cricket board only helped themselves to sponsors’ money and never used any to develop the team for thre future !
Cricket is playing third choice after football and basketball! That said these guys playing now are not the best but in reality are the “make do” generation they would rather buy big chain and ear-ring than train in the nets! The best cricket player the region has produced in the last 20 years [Lara] was a money controlling player whose only concern was himself not the team ! I say get rid of the deadwood in the camp and bring in fresh hungry blood who will chase balls around the field etc .
Its about time someone stand up for what they believe in.”If you dont take a stand on something you will fall for anything.I dont even know why the west indies are still touring because all the players should refuse to play antill all the idiotic membersof the board are replaced by sensible and well thinking people.These board members are still acting like the cane cutting days when they could dictate to everyone and only the yes people and the white men represented the west indies. Bravo to Chris Gayle.
Only a Jamaican would do that.George
You go Chris continue to do ur thing.Coach Otis Gibson and C.E.O Dr. Earnest Hilaire they are the ones destroying W.I. cricket and how could i ever forget the Board. In any sporting organisation we need discipline like we need the the good players but its obvious Gibson and Hilaire are on a personal thing and the Board is no better cuz they are not doing a thing to correct the fighting.If the W.I. Cricket board is getting rid of Gayle the need to get rid the board members Coach Gibson and that man Hilaire.
How dare anyone criticize Chris Gayle like that and blame him for “injuring Caribbean cricket”!!!! WI cricket died in the 1980′s!!! there was no sustainable plan, no strategy for development just a bunch of people hoping that the best players would show up to entertain us. We have been whipping a dead horse ever since Lara met Viv in the dressing room. How could you even begin to suggest that Gayle write a letter of apology to Otis Gibson!!?? Have you lost your minds?! If you have ever been side lined for who you are, you would know that such an act is cowardly and pointless.
Yes we are disappointed in him for following up and tweeting recently about the WICB board, but when you put yourself in hi shoe, it is a gut wrenching hard feeling to know you are the best in the region at what you do and you are being side lined for speaking up. Gayle sacrificed his career for the other and for the incompetent selection policies of the administration. The kind of statements and utterance coming from Gayle is not that of a man who is dislikes cricket in any form, but that of one who is not accepting the short comings of those who are to lead and guide him. Ask yourself why would he say such thing if he didn’t care? Really people think about it!
Time hard now, players will want to make money where they can. Don’t you see that the Indian, the Australians, the South Africans etc. have set themselves with leagues of their own to cash in. Dont you see cricket is going the way of baseball? Which sensible cricketer can resist these big money offers when he is being frustrated by a inept board and a losing side? What we are to ask ourselves is what are we as a region doing to build our sports base economic to attract our best players and have them represent nationally.
The current team captain is lacking, he couldn’t make Jamaica’s, Trinidad or Guyana side and he is captain because he is charismatic. Now they are talking about how challenging it is being in Bangladesh and so on. They are at the bottom of the pile so they fight for what is left. Challenging should be Australia, South Africa etc…. not Bangladesh who they crushed before. WI should be striving for the best, not the worst!
Gayle needs support, he is not entirely wrong. What he needs is to seek audience with a mentor and let his attorney speak for him. No long letters, no more radio interview, and certainly NO TWEETS!! Our Min of Culture & Sports, the Hon. Grange, should assist in guiding Gayle as he cannot fight alone. All the fans should show support for him as well.
As you all know, I am a proponent of change. Maybe WI cricket needs to be dismantled and archived like the federation. Each nation can use the opportunity to seek ICC full membership. Then we can sit back and see how much better we can do; just look how T&T fought with pride and honour over the past few weeks.
Him doa have any damn manners. To darn hype…which no player ought to be!
In America, if a certain amount of players have irreconcilable differences with their coach; then the coach has to go. Players bring in the money and it is easier to replace a coach than to rebuild a team. So run wey di coach mek im go play dolly house an nurse im feelings.
West Indies dosent have enough high quality players to choose from to hang on to petty differences! They are the ones blowing the issues up so big they become monsters! West indies need an awesome pr consultant! So issues like this and ‘Yagga Rowe’Dont get viewed with bitter taste! West Indies has been through this several times before, Viv Richards, Brian Lara,..and several past captains of the team has been through the mill! Time to make a trues! Got to give and take!
I have never seen a coach of any team with such a dismal record that is not fired. Here we have a team that cant win a game against any of the top teams in the world and the coach is going to use personal difference to exclude one of the top players in the world.Chris Gayle or no Chris Gayle Otis Gibson should be fired. There is no other sporting team in the world that has such a poor record that the coach is not fired. People watch sport to see the great players and it is the coach’s responsibility to ensure that .
He, does want to play for the Windies but not under the dolts that are currently in control. I see it as a conspiracy to get the good Jamaicans out of the team and keep the ordinary ones to give the rest of the Caribbean the impression that we do not have the best players in the region as demonstrated by our record performance of regional titles. It upsets me to see how the current board is driving the glorious achievements of the past into the ground with its insular approach to the game. West Indians want to see Chris Gayle, he is a man with hardly any unreasonable requests, and like most of us he wants the best for the Cricket, a view that obviously isn’t held by the plank that is the board. Gayle is being somewhat of a drama queen, but if the man holds a view that is far from unreasonable, let him hold it and he obviously knows more about cricket than Gibson, Hilaire and the majority of the board. On this current track the Board will drive the cricket further into the ground.
The West Indies Plank needs a total overhaul starting from the top to the bottom, the coach needs to go, Richardson, Hilaire (who knows only how to watch cricket) should go back to academia and leave running the board to those whom have played at least more than backyard cricket.
Chris Gayle certainly wants to play for the West Indies,but why would someone apologize for something and they did nothing wrong.I think coach Otis Gibson must get his act together and select Gayle to play,argument done!!!!!!
Chris Gayle is becoming an arrogant player. He declared that he prefere 20/20 so why does he wants to play tests. On the otherhand the board , the manager and WIPA are all a bunch of alpha males who needs to go . Too amny egos. Incidentally as a female cricket fan i dont think gayle is a graet cricket , he is a big hitter of the ball and is exciting on a given day to waych. yes he has I think 2 triple centuries so he definitely has talent . but if i should pick a big hitter of the ball , one who is talanted and was always exciting and could be called great I chose vivian Richards any day. Talk about belligernce for the oppositin. Viv did not only talk he showed it with his bat in test and one days
I had the privilege of motivating the Jamaica cricket team which won the Busta Cup in 1999 – 2000 season. There I met a very quiet, unassuming young man with a zest for achieving highly. During the period we had many conversations on his intended trip to the top. The West Indies team had just began its slide to the gutters and the general feeling was that it would be a long ride back to the top.
While there was a negative virus spreading among the players which seem to have seeped from the board to the selectors to the individual players, there still was some emerging talents as Gayle and Sarwan who emerged from that pack and would make their mark.
All through this period the possibilities of losing loomed larger in the discussions and strongly out weighed the outlook of winning. It was in this environment that Christopher Gayle was born to West Indies Cricket. He was a product of the manufacturing grid that did not prepare players to succeed and expected young fledglings to mature on their own. My advice to the budding Gayle was to answer the bleak forecast on performance with his bat and not with his tongue. I wish he could have contained his tongue during the trying period of management bungling and unfeeling tirades.
However, there is so much a person can take. The West Indies Board started every tour in a contentiousness mood. They seem to thrive on conflict. Yet despite this, they seem to have very poor conflict resolution skills. It is the bible that informs fathers that they should not provoke the children to wrath, but rather should be loving and counsel with wisdom. We note the chargin that explodes after cricketers retire. Lara held his tongue until after retiring. Chanderpaul’s outburst came when the pressure esserted by the board was so unbearable, he had to make public his experience and got a slight reprieve.
When are the governors of cricket in the West Indies going to change their leadership style. The autocratic, don’t ask me no question style have long proven its inadequacy to reach out and inspire. The early cricketers excelled despite the board, but enough is enough. I recall being called from Antigua one late night to give my opinion on the way forward for West Indies Cricket. I pointed to the need for an attitude reshuffle of the leaders and have not received a reply or another call. iF THE BLIND LEADS THE BLIND, THEN BOTH WILL FALL INTO A DITCH. The trouble is both will call the ditch an highway, if both is blind. We need seeing leaders to direct the not so clear sighted youngsters around the ditch of sorrow.
We need a new crop of leaders with a sense of leadership that can inspire talent to its intended actualisation. I pluck this from my book, the POWER GEMS, ” lEADERSHIP DOES NOT PRODUCE CLONES, IT IS THE SKILL OR ART OF UNIFYING THE DYNAMICS OF DIVERSITY”. Good management brings persons to suitable maturity over time like the seasoned grape producing wine, it matures with age. Gayle stuck his head in the noose of hornets and is still smarting from the bites of anger and retribution. May the LORD JESUS help us from the depth of degradation and assist us to rise for our youngsters sake. The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
I think Otis Gibson is carrying belly for Chris, he is so jealous because he had not contributed nor have made any impact on West Indies Cricket, so he is too bitter because of his under achievement. Obviously somebody sorry for him and give him coaching job. I did not even recognize Otis as a bowler and that’s why I think he has so much ego. Frankly speaking both he and WICB should pack their bags and go. Can we lobby for JAMAICA to represents itself at all forms of cricket and let the other countries remain with WICB. We are capable enough to stand on our own. I guess they grudge us for our natural abilities in all sports. One love.
All who play cricket know that at any level there is always going to be criticism of leaders. Leaders know this and should be ready to accept criticism as a valid feedback to their performances. Mature leadership knows that this is a part of the interdependence that brokers continued development. Goo leaders do not produce clones but develops the skill of unifying the dynamics of diversity. Good management seeks to bring individuals to suitable maturity. These factors require that successful organisations have outlined plans and strategies to achieved desired growth among the led and the leaders.
It appears that the West Indies Cricket Boards over the past decades have not convinced the public that they hav done a n outstanding job in leadership and management. Too many times at the start of series there have loomed contents and disagreements to the detriment of the players occupying the center stage competition. There seem to be a style of leadership which is so autocratic that its pregnates rebellion from players.
Over the years many conflicts have been aired which could have been handled outside of the public glare. The majority of these appears to have been resolved unsatisfactorily to all involved and so there have been a build up of resentment. This is the case I think that spilled over when Chis Gayle went public. It is my feeling that he was echoing the sentiments of the quiet crusaders who refuse to speak up. The questions therefore loom from the interactions between the Board and Mr. Gayle; Does the W.I. Cricket Board wants Gayle to play for the West Indies again? Is it making it too difficult for an acceptable apology? Is there any thing arising from the impasse that demands that the Board should apologies to Gayle or the paying public? Is Gayle an arrogant non caring individual so callous that he would destroy himself and W.I. cricket with his outburst, or is he a genuine person frustrated by conditions that he feels will not change unless he makes it public? Is the board (bored)willing to state in what areas they require an apology or are they saying he should not have made public his disagreement but should have forwarded them to the Board in writing? These answered questions can shed some light on the future relationship that will contain between players, countries of the region, the Boards and the recovery or continued demise of W.I. cricket.
While I agree that no one man is bigger than the team, it is my belief that the WICB has been ruining WI cricket for far too long. Gayle knows that this administration will forever keep him out of WI cricket. If he apologises, they will simply point out that he admits he is wrong and still omit him from the team.
Sometimes you just have to keep pushing against the walls of jericho. One day they will come down… and WI cricket will be the better for it.
I don’t know Gibson but if he is appointed by this board, he is as culpable as them.