The parallels, as far as they go, are obvious.
They are both 32, two of the most commanding batsmen of their time and highly paid box-office attractions wherever in the world they play.
Chris Gayle and Kevin Pietersen also share something else – the conflicts with authority that led to Gayle’s 15 months exile from the West Indies team, only just over, and Pietersen’s more recent exclusion by England that,
