Missing Gayle leaves a West Indies charisma void
West Indies will be without their one-day Bradman on the tour of England, says the Guardian 's Barney Ronay, and this takes away some of their sheen.
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
West Indies will be without their one-day Bradman on the tour of England, says the Guardian's Barney Ronay, and this takes away some of their sheen.
He [Gayle] is simply a grand talent and an attractively extreme individual. Where pretty much every other international cricketer – including the pop-kid batting tyros of India's new wave – retains that sense of journeyman familiarity, an air of scotch egg and room service and check-in desk, Gayle always looks as though he's just stepped off the bridge of his own disco-spaceship, staffed by a team of semi-feral Venusian mermaids.
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo