West Indies Cricket Fans

I wanted to write about something else - perhaps the delightful fact that Jacob Martin will now lend his cover-driving skills to the Tihar Jail cricket team, or that charming exchange of pleasantries between SK Warne and that Dixit fellow - but this column ended up being about Chris Gayle. Why? Because Chris Gayle is unstoppable. Read more

as long as he does not take it seriously he will be ok.

it will stop as hard as it started. nutten lasts forever especially this crap. he medi loves to build up heros so dat they can control them.

the threat of losing it might be so painful to a celeb they migh tip and toucn their toes for the media in fear deh may be cast down next day.

the key is not to play the game. what deh say let dem say it...jess ignore dem whether deh rave... or rant yu

A very amusing story....

But yes, maps, the Indian media has made Gayle into a larger-than-life figure, and the main drawback of that is that he won't get any privacy in India, as he recently discovered. I hope he handles this adulation better than Lara did....

At least Gayle is luckier than Lara in that he's only a superstar in India. When he leaves that country, he can unwind.

In the meantime, he can take advantage of that status to make as much money from the IPL as he can over the years to come....

But it would do him good to take heed of what's happened to Pollard. KP was a superstar in last year's IPL, but he's struggling to score runs in this year's version.