After disastrous NZ tour
Australia and England while visitors need to qualify for the 2019 World Cup in Zimbabwe
Dhaka Dynamites. Gayle scored 38 runs from 47 balls across four innings and looked vulnerable against shortpitched bowling.
“Write him off at your peril,” Law said. “He’s played this game long enough. He knows how to do it. He was pretty good in England a few months ago.”
Law insisted the 38-year-old has more to offer.
“Right now it probably doesn’t look like it, but there’s plenty of cricket left in the big man. He can destroy any attack, it doesn’t have to be a minnow.
“He’s central to the way this dressing room ticks, and commands a lot of respect. He’s just got to start performing in the middle again.”
Indeed. If Gayle doesn’t deliver in the World Cup qualifiers in March, where the top two teams advance to the 2019 tournament in England, Caribbean cricket risks plummeting to new depths.
Colin Munro was again central to New Zealand’s fortunes, this time with the Black Caps’ fastest T20 century off 47 balls.
He became the first player to score three T20 international centuries, overtaking the braces from Brendon McCullum, the West Indies’ Evin Lewis and Gayle.
Munro only started opening the batting for New Zealand after working with McCullum in the Caribbean Premier League. He paid tribute to the former New Zealand captain.
“I’ll keep using Baz as a mentor. He tells me the same things. Stand still, be aggressive and have some fun.”