Da Boss of Jamaica
Bharat Sundaresan, in The Indian Express, tracks Chris Gayle's rise from a shanty in Rollington Town to a three-storied mansion in upscale Chancery Hall in his hometown of Kingston
14-Jul-2013
Chris Gayle, who will play his 250th ODI against Pakistan in Guyana, is the free-spirited dervish of international cricket. Bharat Sundaresan, in The Indian Express, tracks the Jamaican's rise from a shanty in Rollington Town to a three-storied mansion in upscale Chancery Hall in his hometown of Kingston.
"When he's here, you can see Chris come up to the big balcony on the first floor overlooking Kingston. And he'll stand there in nothing but a towel and look down like a king surveying his kingdom," says Jeffrey. Surveying, perhaps, the city whose perils he overcame as a young man growing up in the crime-infested ghettos of East Kingston, where it would take nothing for a young boy to be sucked into drugs and gang wars.