Simon Doull’s take on Chris Gayle’s eventual return to the West Indies team is, no doubt, widely, if not unanimously, shared throughout the Caribbean. What makes it more pertinent is that it came from someone unaware of all the convoluted reasons for his prolonged exile and completely detached from the divisiveness it caused in these parts.
Doull, the former New Zealand swing bowler, said on television commentary during Thursday’s first ODI that, for all Gayle’s spectacular hitting that have made him the darling of franchise owners and fans and a unforgiving ogre to bowlers in globally spread Twenty20 leagues, his true place was in international cricket for the West Indies.
It was a travesty that, as he continued to smash bowlers
