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born 1979 Jamaica

Christopher Henry Gayle (born 21 September 1979) is a former Jamaican cricketer who played international cricket for the West Indies from 1999 to 2021. Gayle is widely regarded as the greatest Twenty20 batsman in the history of cricket.

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But then things are tough and they turn their back on you. Then you know the real people.

You have to get hurt at times to learn from those mistakes – everybody is going to want something from you.

Even in Jamaica, your own country, coming into youth cricket you need to be from an upscale high school or have a light skin.

As West Indians we have always been disrespected.

How can you jump to that conclusion? It shows no respect. They smile at you – while trying to destroy you in the media.

As soon as we fight back they make it look like we are the bad one in the media. We’ve experienced these things over the years.

As you get older you get used to the culture. My club, Lucas Cricket Club, was the only one to accept black people back in the day.

We have to face it ourselves because our own board don’t defend us. So we have to fight our own war in the middle against these allegations about West Indies having no brains.

So people would say: ‘We can’t have this Chris leading his country. His background doesn’t suit us.’ That’s the reality I faced.

We were very disappointed. We should have been one of the favourites but we weren’t even in the top five.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chris Gayle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.