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Is Chris Gayle holding a puncture during WICB selectors again?
- Updated: August 3, 2016
Key West Indies players, including Chris Gayle, Sunil Narine, Dwayne Bravo, Andre Russell, Darren Sammy and Kieron Pollard are blank from a Test team, creation a 4-match array opposite India a no-contest.
Indian batting fable Sunil Gavaskar and former India skipper Sourav Ganguly have pronounced that a inclusion of these T20 stars would have done it a some-more even contest.
Ganguly had voiced startle during a fact that these players are now representing their T20 franchises in a ongoing Caribbean Premier League (CPL) tournament.
Chris Gayle, Darren Sammy, Andre Russell and Dwayne Bravo applaud a tumble of an English wicket during a World T20 final. Pic/PTI
The fact that players like Gayle and Bravo are opting for remunerative authorization deals opposite a universe to play T20 cricket than personification Test matches for their republic has reignited a bar vs nation debate.
But it not always about players opting for franchise-based cricket. Sometimes, it is also a house process that affects a combination of a team. For instance, a West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has a order of selecting cricketers for Tests usually on a basement of their accessibility in their domestic four-day competition.
Now, with Gayle, Bravo and a others personification in remunerative leagues like Big Bash and IPL, it’s doubtful for them to be accessible for a internal foe and so they turn incompetent for preference for a inhabitant team.
So while a approach a Windies second-string group is surrendering opposite a Indians might make for tedious Test cricket, it’s also loyal that it’s not since of miss of talent in a Caribbean.
Gayle recently posted something on amicable media that voiced his agonise during not being in a Test squad.
The 36-year-old bomb opener posted on Facebook and Instagram that he wasn’t a former Test actor and that he’s hadn’t late nonetheless from a longer format of a game.
Clearly, Gayle was hinting during a fact that he hadn’t been picked notwithstanding being accessible for selection.
Yo Sammy, we ain’t no former Test player. Me nuh retire. Lol
A print posted by KingGayle ð (@chrisgayle333) onJul 30, 2016 during 6:42pm PDT
This is a same man who in 2009 opposite Australia, batted roughly seven-and-a-half hours in scoring an dominant 165 to save a Test in Adelaide. In a really subsequent game, he crushed a fifth-fastest Test century – off 70 balls – to prove that he was still a ‘Gayle storm’. In 2010, he batted roughly 10 hours and scored 333 opposite Sri Lanka and Muttiah Muralitharan in Galle to turn usually a fourth batsman to measure dual triples in Tests, so proof again his ability to bat prolonged periods.
Gayle, who has been in difficulty time and again for attack out during a West Indian Cricket Board, hasn’t played a Test in Sep 2014 against Bangladesh during Kingstown.
Gayle along with other comparison West Indies cricketers Bravo and Sammy had taken to Twitter to lambast a WICB selectors for ignoring them for a ODI tri-series involving Australia and South Africa in Jun 2016.