Jamaica-born Gayle did indeed play for them between 2013 and 2019, is a two-time winner for them and their highest run scorer ever. But he was released at the end of the 2019 campaign and what followed was a series of outbursts from Gayle towards Ramnaresh Sarwan, the team’s assistant coach and a former team-mate of Gayle’s for the Windies. Gayle partly blamed Sarwan for his dismissal and labelled him a ‘snake’, ‘deceitful’ and ‘distrustful’.