GABRIEL’S 4-GAME BAN FOR GAY JIBE

SHANNON GABRIEL has been banned for four matches for his comments to Joe Root in the third Test. The ICC have suspended Gabriel for the first four games of West Indies’ one-day series with England and fined him 75 per cent of his match fee after, as

Sportsmail revealed yesterday, allegedly calling the England captain a ‘batty boy’. Root was widely praised both within and outside cricket for replying: ‘Don’t say that as an insult. There’s nothing wrong with being gay.’ Gabriel breached All smiles: the pair showed no hard feelings post-match TWITTER the ICC Code of Conduct on ‘abuse of a player’, and was suspended for reaching eight demerit points in the last year. The one-day series begins in Barbados next Wednesday.