Don comments unfair on Gayle
West Indies may have won a Test match after two years but their off-field problems have not disappeared
Dustin Silgardo
25-Feb-2013
West Indies may have won a Test match after two years but their off-field problems have not disappeared. On caribbeansportsnetwork.com, Tony Becca analyses WICB director Hilary Beckles' statements that Chris Gayle is a don-like figure in West Indies cricket. Becca says Beckles' comments were born out of frustration and were inappropriate given his standing.
I have heard the fans refer to West Indies players in some really derogatory terms, and I have heard them say that the players of today are not like the players of yesterday. The truth, however, is that Beckles is not a normal fan. Beckles is an educated man, he is a professor, he is principal of the university, he is a director of the WICB, he should not have said it, and if he is sorry that he said it - especially if he did not mean it - he should, immediately and unreservedly, say "I am sorry" to Gayle for linking him with Dudus.
Dustin Silgardo is a former sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo