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Gayle says he won't quit Windies captaincy | A defiant West Indies cricket captain Chris Gayle has said that that he won't quit Test captaincy despite his team's humiliating innings and 44 run defeat to Australia
in last week's Gabba Test. According to Fox Sports, in a News Limited column,
Gayle says he has the respect and support of his players and will not walk away
from the captaincy. "When you have a bad loss like this, it's to be expected that
a lot of people are going to speculate over my captaincy. Some say I'm not the
right person for the job. I've got a message for those people - I'm not going
anywhere. My heart is in it and I feel really strongly that I am the right man
to lead the West Indies through this challenging period, "Gayle writes. "With
my captaincy coming under fire, the really heartening thing for me is to see how
I have respect from each and every one of the players in our squad. Times are
tough, but I'm determined to be the strong captain the team needs right now,"
he adds. While key batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan is likely to be fit for the second
Test in Adelaide starting on Friday, fast bowler Jerome Taylor has been ruled
out of the series and will return home. Gayle said that West Indies batsmen will
use the debut Test century of 19-year-old opener Adrian Barath to inspire them
to turn things around. "If a teenager in his first Test can do that sort of thing,
it should drive the rest of our batsmen to produce some big scores," Gayle said.
Gayle also criticised cricket's controversial new video review system after twice
unsuccessfully challenging his lbw decisions at the Gabba. "I'm just not a fan
of it, the new technology they have put in place still makes mistakes," Gayle
said. |
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