Gayle looking forward to challenging series

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- Jayawardene eyeing first test series win in C/bean

Rival captains Chris Gayle, of the West Indies and Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka go into tomorrow’s first Digicel test with different expectations from their players but with the same goal of winning the two-test series.The venue was the Essequibo Room of Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel and the occasion was the launch of the 2008 Digicel sponsored Home Series between the West Indies and Sri Lanka, and while the two captains Mahela Jayawardene and Chris Gayle were the main persons present it was Digicel’s head of sponsorship Kieran Foley, whose words had the most impact.

“We are very ecstatic that they are about to host our first Digicel Test match and the sponsorship of West Indies cricket is very important to us as we are working in association with the WICB,” said Foley……


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