CEO James Sutherland says banning Gayle would be a ‘slippery slope’Gayle caused a furore with his notorious ‘Don’t blush baby’ interviewCricket Australia chief James Sutherland insists controversial West Indies opener Chris Gayle won’t be prevented from signing with a Big Bash franchise. Gayle caused outrage in January following his notorious ’Don’t blush baby’ boundary-line interview with Mel McLaughlin during his spell with the Melbourne Renegades.
But despite the atrocious publicity surrounding the incident, Sutherland appears to contain back-tracked after Cricket Australia strongly intimated at the time that it would come over the top of any team that tried to sign Gayle for next season’s Big Bash League.
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Source: theguardian.com