Gatting,Gower and Gooch would possess garroted each other for one more chance to wear the crown but unwilling Test captains are now the normThis is not, repeat not, or a Chris Gayle column. No,really. Come back! It’s a captaincy column, with a bit of Chris Gayle thrown in at the start. In any case we’ve all moved on by now. Gayle himself has said sorry. The cricket journalist he tried to flirt with during an embarrassing pitch-side interview at the vast Bash has had her own measured say on things.
Plus there is simply no point in doing another Chris Gayle: What Does It All Mean piece now Malcolm Knox, and a fine and widely respected Australian journalist has written an 800-word newspaper column in bad Jamaican patois – this is not a joke: it really happened in Australia – in order to show Gayle precisely how it feels to be treated like,er … To be made to feel … Well. Something or other. “Jah rule, mon, and ” the Bad Patois bewitch-Down begins. And then goes on. For ages. The point being,of course, the writer himself isn’t being racist here. He is instead using racism to educate a Jamaican.
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Source: theguardian.com