Gayle signs with South African franchise

DURBAN, (Reuters) –  Former West Indies  captain  Chris Gayle   has signed to play  for South African franchise the Dolphins in the South African  domestic Twenty20 (T20) competition, the Durban-based team  announced today.
Gayle, 31, has been involved in a protracted dispute with  the West Indies Cricket Board and has not turned out for the  team since he played in a World Cup quarter-final against  Pakistan in Dhaka on March 23.
The left-handed Gayle, who will join the Dolphins next  February, is regarded as one of the most devastating batsmen in  world cricket and has scored 6,373 runs in his 91 test matches,  while he has accumulated 8,087 runs in 228 ODIs.
In the 20 T20 internationals he has played, Gayle has  bludgeoned 617 runs at a strike-rate of 144.49 and he is one of  only five men to have scored a T20 international century.