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Dr Ernest Despaire staying strong despite Gayle comeback pretty much ruining his life
West Indies CEO Dr Ernest Despaire has revealed that though he'd been feeling "pretty low" in the weeks leading up to Chris Gayle's inevitable comeback to the West Indies team, he'd at least managed to find some succour in the batsman getting injured and missing the first ODI. "It's the small things in life that keep you going in your darkest hour," he said philosophically, "namely, the one in which you realise your grip on taking West Indies cricket hostage is being unfairly compromised."
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Gayle mourns loss of father figure
Many in the West Indies team are mourning the jailing of Texas kajillionaire Allen Stanford for fraud. "He was like the sugar daddy I never had," said an emotional Chris Gayle on Father's Day. "You have to understand that as a kid growing up in the rough-and-tumble streets of Jamaica, there was no one I had to look up to who was holding out a platter of an easy million in cold, hard cash," explained Gayle. "A lot of kids in the Caribbean grow up without the kinds of opportunities I have been lucky enough to have. And by God, I have Mr Stanford to thank for that."
...it's called satire. Okie dokie
Dr Ernest Despaire staying strong despite Gayle comeback pretty much ruining his life
West Indies CEO Dr Ernest Despaire has revealed that though he'd been feeling "pretty low" in the weeks leading up to Chris Gayle's inevitable comeback to the West Indies team, he'd at least managed to find some succour in the batsman getting injured and missing the first ODI. "It's the small things in life that keep you going in your darkest hour," he said philosophically, "namely, the one in which you realise your grip on taking West Indies cricket hostage is being unfairly compromised."
AND.....
Gayle mourns loss of father figure
Many in the West Indies team are mourning the jailing of Texas kajillionaire Allen Stanford for fraud. "He was like the sugar daddy I never had," said an emotional Chris Gayle on Father's Day. "You have to understand that as a kid growing up in the rough-and-tumble streets of Jamaica, there was no one I had to look up to who was holding out a platter of an easy million in cold, hard cash," explained Gayle. "A lot of kids in the Caribbean grow up without the kinds of opportunities I have been lucky enough to have. And by God, I have Mr Stanford to thank for that."
...it's called satire. Okie dokie