“Give me one more game in Jamaica,” Chris Gayle wants to bow out in front of home crowd

Chris Gayle has confirmed that he is not announcing his retirement from international cricket just yet, and he would actually prefer to bow out in front of his home crowd in Jamaica, but he is not sure whether he would get that opportunity.

According to Gayle, if he doesn’t get the opportunity to play his last game in Jamaica, then he would announce his retirement, but he has not announced it yet and he can only be considered “semi-retired” right now.

The kind of ovation Chris Gayle got after getting out off the bowling of Pat Cummins in West Indies’ last T20 World Cup game against Australia, it seemed as if it was the end of a magnificent T20 international career right there, but Gayle later clarified that he was only interacting with the fans who had turned up in decent numbers.

Gayle acknowledged that he has had a phenomenal career and he insisted that a lot of hard work and a lot of blood, sweat and tears went into it. Gayle said his passion is still there, so much so that he wouldn’t mind playing another World Cup for West Indies, but he doesn’t think West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) will allow that now.

Let’s see if I get a game in Jamaica: Gayle

“It’s been a phenomenal career. I didn’t announce any retirement, but they actually give me one game in Jamaica to go in front of my home crowd, then I can say ‘hey guys, thank you so much.’ Let’s see,” Chris Gayle said at the end of the West Indies campaign in T20 World Cup 2021.

Gayle, who opened the batting for West Indies in both their T20 World Cup title-winning campaigns in 2012 and 2016, was asked to bat at no. 3 this time around, but with modest returns at 3, he was then promoted to open the batting again.

However, Gayle wasn’t able to make too much of an impact opening the batting either, and it was overall a dismal tournament for him personally with the bat as it was for West Indies collectively as a team.