Graceless Gayle, tactless and unprofessional
Chris Gayle’s comments toward Australian Ten Sports’ presenter Mel McLaughlin were tactless, graceless and categorically unprofessional, whether it was said in Australia, Kazakhstan, Myanmar or any part of the Caribbean.
At the same time the call by Ian Chappell for an international ban on Gayle is fraught with unreasonableness and ludicrousness after Gayle issued an ‘apology’ and was fined US$7,000.
There are two lessons to be learnt from Gayle’s unthinkingness. Firstly, the undesirable behaviour (not unique to Gayle) did not germinate in Melbourne, Australia but had its seeds sewn and fertilised in the Caribbean by the many institutions and people who have lauded his (and others) sporting talents and allowed balls of wool to be pulled over their critical and objective eyes.