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					<p class="headline_meta">by <span class="author vcard"><a href="http://wicketmaiden.com/author/mspr1nt/" class="url fn">mspr1nt</a></span> on <abbr class="published" title="2012-03-29">March 29, 2012</abbr></p>
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<p>Whisper it, but the big man is back.  After a year long saga of up and downing between mercenary posterboy Chris Gayle and the West Indies Cricket Board, the latter finally buckled to the increasing demand of the public and gave them what they want:  a bowler’s worst nightmare is back in the West Indies fold.  Well, not yet. Gayle is in India ,preparing for the start of the glitzy IPL  &#8211; honouring his contractual agreement with RCB.</p>
<p>So his imminent return comes at a price, a hefty one at that.  It was never going to be without rebellion and controversy that Gayle returned, for – as it is with enigmas – they often don’t understand what they’re doing. They just do and they do it their way.  After a high profile discussion in St Vincent last week – where no conclusion was reached – Gayle and the WICB finally kissed and made up this week. But, of course there would be a but, Gayle had to include a ‘side letter’ – a side letter with, what one can only assume are his demands.</p>
<p>Ah, Gayle’s demands.</p>
<p>Of course. Christopher Henry Gayle is wily old fox, he’s been in this game long enough to know his value. When somebody is that talented and that adored by so many, you can name your price. He had WICB eating out of the palm of his hand, he knew that they’d be no push overs, but he also  knew that the WICB had to win back some favour from the public and drafting him back into the side is one way to do that.</p>
<p>Because, who could tame Gayle? The WICB, of course, or at least, allude that they can.</p>
<p>So, let’s assume the clause stipulates this: Gayle will play for the West Indies when it doesn&#8217;t interfere with his t20 commitments. He won’t sign any new contracts, but he’ll miss out on the upcoming Test series against Australia and an away series against England.</p>
<p>The WICB&#8217;s  sheer desperation to win the favour of the public has made them look like limp cowards. The kind of coward who’d fire off  bullets into your back while you are walking away after you’ve declared a truce.</p>
<p>While Gayle’s return will be welcomed across the board, and so it should, it should not be on his terms.  Allowing Gayle to as he pleases sets a dangerous precedent and a bad example for youngsters. Would youngsters think that they can get away with choosing the IPL over the pride of donning the baggy maroon, provided they play their cards right, the WICB might buckle to their needs too.</p>
<p>You can’t blame the kids – the WICB is hardly a perfect picture of cricketing administration. And while some of their international contemporaries earn double even triple their salary representing their countries, it’s easy to understand the lure of the large purse – the purse which is so easily flung open by high profile t20 leagues.  However, does money become  substitute for the pride of playing for your nation? Sure, you can’t put pride on the till counter at the supermarket to pay for your groceries, but you can choose your business transactions wisely.</p>
<p>Gayle has made his money. Bucket loads of it. To negotiate an agreement with his current employers (not the WICB) in order to miss the first half of the IPL in exchange for serving national duty would not have been too difficult. But he&#8217;s Chris Gayle. He does what he wants, how he wants and the WICB allows him to do so.</p>
<p>In <strong><a href="http://caribbeancricket.com/news/2012/03/28/3453">Gayle&#8217;s agreement with the WICB</a>,</strong> Gayle apparently, &#8221;reaffirmed his commitment of support to the players on the team and the team management, inclusive of his solemn pledge as a senior professional to be an exemplar to his fellow professionals, especially the younger ones.&#8221;</p>
<p>Is being an example of a frivolous mercenary really the kind of role model WICB can afford to put out to the youths? With kids like Sunny Narine and Andre Russell already copping flack for their imminent decision to choose IPL over national duty, the WICB have shot themselves in the foot. Should they opt to pick an IPL contract over playing for their country &#8211; where some of them don&#8217;t even have a national contract &#8211; the WICB will not have any leg to stand off. They&#8217;ve blown both of those off with a double barrel shot gun.  And then threw a hand grenade down on the ground, just for good measure.</p>
<p>Desperate times leads to desperate measures? Maybe. But it also leads to a desperate display of ineptitude.</p>
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<p>As a huge Windies fan, I imagine that wasn&#8217;t the easiest piece to write. I agree with your sentiments re the cap over the cash but the WICB continues to make it difficult for the players &#8211; at international level they are underpaid, disorganized and I&#8217;ll-disciplined. The current issue has brought some of it to a head and highlighted the issues more prominently but will it change anything? People say the the old masters from the 1980s and 1990s should get involved and sort it out, but those same players took large wads of cash and sold their souls as &#8216;ambassadors&#8217; to Allan Stanford. </p>
<p>The current state of cricket in the Windies disillusionsamd saddens me, but I think some of the issues have to do with the moulding of many tiny nations into a coherent team and administration. Administrators have very little of the Windies best interests at heart and instead seem to use their position as a springboard into island politics. </p>
<p>Each debacle simply leads to me to watch Fire in Babylon, contemplate a large rum and remember that the Windies were once the ,last dominant side the game has ever seen (and likely ever will).</p>
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<p>A fish rots from the head, that&#8217;s evident here. Maybe WI cricket won&#8217;t ever be restored to its former sparkling glory, but at least they are showing signs of being potentially competative again&#8230;let&#8217;s see what the Test series does&#8230;</p>
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<p>Damn! I was hoping to make a few quid offering my services as a negotiator between Gayle and the WICB this coming summer.  Ah well.  Nice piece.</p>
<p>As someone who grew up watching the West Indies annihilate everyone they played for most of my young years, this ongoing farce has hurt West Indies more than they realise.</p>
<p>I sense no banging of heads here, and that&#8217;s what was needed.  Neither party in this dispute has behaved impeccably.  Then the politicians got involved.  That was a guarantee of a foul up.  Why announce an agreement when there is a side letter, the contents of which we do not know?</p>
<p>Gayle&#8217;s availability for national duty has not been confirmed.  Nothing&#8217;s really changed. Christopher Henry Gayle will swan off around the world being too cool for school, smashing bowlers out of the park in the IPL and FLT20 and earning shedloads of money while the people of the West Indies wonder when he will deign to turn out for them.  The WICB think they have saved face to some degree in hoping that people might now stop asking why Gayle isn&#8217;t playing for them.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a mess.  Vested interests abound left, right and centre.  This won&#8217;t help things get any better.  As Aotearoaxi says, there are areas in vast need of improvement but who is going to be able to get that improvement out of them?  I wouldn&#8217;t want the job of West Indies coach because the WICB don&#8217;t look even remotely competent.</p>
<p>I like Darren Sammy. He gives his all and I&#8217;m happy when his West Indies team wins (as I watched them do at the Oval last year).  But I don&#8217;t see things around and above him improving.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s sad.  Where does West Indies go from here?</p>
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<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s crazy right&#8230;.politicians in cricket, we all know that doesn&#8217;t work, just ask Jayasuriya. </p>
<p>And yeah, we kinda know that they have sort of kind of reached an agreement but nobody knows what it is. It&#8217;s like pissing on somebody who is on fire in an attempt to put it out. Or putting a plaster over a machete wound.</p>
<p>However, I disagree with the fact that they &#8216;don&#8217;t look remotely competent&#8217;. They look a damn sight better than what they did a year or so ago. Loads of talent there, just being managed so poorly!</p>
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<p>This could be a masterstroke from the WICB rather than the buckle it seems to be&#8230; Once the fans start to realise that Gayle is available for selection by the West Indies and that he chooses to prioritise T20 tournaments first, we might see a change in popular opinion towards the big man.</p>
<p>Then again as long as he keeps pillaging bowlers in regional T20&#8242;s, he might just be satisfied with a mass of non West Indian fans.</p>
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<p>But he&#8217;s already chosen t20 over the country. He could&#8217;ve stayed for the t20s like some of his counterparts, but he didn&#8217;t. So it takes two to tango, Gayle is not innocent in all of this. I love the big man, but I think some fans are putting far too much trust in his ability. Like he&#8217;s going to the be sole saviour of WI cricket. He&#8217;s not.</p>
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<p>Completely agree with him not being a saviour of any sort&#8230; I think what I was trying to say is that Gayle had previously spun it to seem like he was &#8220;forced&#8221; to play t20 cricket rather than play for WI&#8230; He&#8217;s losing the moral high ground now and it might come back to bite him, especially if he doesn&#8217;t perform spectacularly for WI.</p>
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<p>Ouch, that&#8217;s tough for me to take. I&#8217;m a huge CHG and I really want to believe that he&#8217;s not doing what he does for the money, but you make a fair point. That hurts, though. Ouch.</p>
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<p>I think you&#8217;ve hit on one of the key reasons for the decline in West Indies cricket and why they are battling to build any sort of concerted revival &#8211; it&#8217;s ultimately not a national cricket team but a team representing  a number of different countries.  I think that may be one of the key reasons that their players choose IPL riches over playing for the national team, although the direct clash between their main home season and the IPL doesn&#8217;t help. Small countries also seems mean less money and a divided administration. I actually wonder sometimes if a national team from Trinindad &amp; Tobago, or Jamaica, may do better, simply because of the issue of national pride. </p>
<p>Up until the early 90s, the Windies seemed to be playing for something bigger than themselves. Now in this era of big money, other sporting options and maybe a more materialistic and less idealistic generation, the factors creating division seem to be greater than those creating unity. That is why I actually do believe that Afghan cricket may be a better long term bet than the West Indies.</p>
<p>I hope I&#8217;m wrong as I&#8217;m sure do most neutrals. But every year, those divisions seem to be growing&#8230;</p>
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<p>T&#038;T did remarkably well in the Champs League once, runners up and all. Was awesome. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think the big money thing is an issue exclusive to WI, it&#8217;s happening all over. But on that note, buy the next edition of Sports Illustrated because I have a piece on the t20 phenomena in there :D</p>
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<p>Yes, remember that T&amp;T showing, felt sometimes like there was more unity there than when the Windies are playing</p>
<p>Big money is everywhere, but I think my point is that smaller, less wealthy countries can&#8217;t do as much to match it</p>
<p>Promise I&#8217;ll buy the next  SI :)</p>
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