Cricket: Gayle 'A new beginning'

How slender are the margins. Chris Gayle went out to bat for the West Indies yesterday condemned, if not quite in so many words, as a washed-up mercenary wastrel. Disillusionment abounded with the way he approached his work. The president of his team's cricket board had felt emboldened to retweet a message during the previous match that said: "Gayle goes... Can't buy a run. Let's give him a retirement package ... Can't fail repeatedly and still front up based on reputation."