Chris Gayle Loses It

Andrew Strauss has become the Sir Alex Ferguson of cricket and Chris Gayle the Kevin Keegan in an extraordinary spat which threatens to overshadow absolutely nothing.

Gayle has reacted angrily to Strauss saying that tipping up two days before a Test Match in a miserable and damp England after your team has been dicked on a series of county grounds by England's B and C teams is not good for Test Cricket.

Gayle, who didn't say "I'd bloody luv it if we beat them, I'd bloody luv it" did however say that Andrew Strauss is spending too much time thinking about him, Chris. While Gayle was in India he scored very few runs, didn't make much of an impact and pissed off his team colleagues who were sent out to some God forsaken corners of England to sat on by people like Rob Key.

Strauss, who up until now has not been regarded as a strategic genius in the pre-match verbals has clearly got under Keegayle's skin as the West Indies skipper has all but announced his imminent retirement, decided he can't stand Test Cricket and obviously given a rousing morale boost to his countrymen back at home, never mind his colleagues who are coming into the second test having been totally hammered in the first test.

As Wickman writes he is now furiously back tracking and claiming he has been misinterpreted after a no doubt serious verbal roasting from West Indies Tour Management...