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Chris Gayle returns to West Indies team for ODI series

Posted By Anoop Dubey

June 05,2012

Chris Gayle returns to international cricket for the first time in 14 months after being recalled by West Indies for the one-day series against England......

          The 32-year-old former captain has been out of the team after a dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board.

Dwayne Bravo returns as vice-captain, while all-rounder Kieron Pollard and spinner Sunil Narine are also included.
The three-match one-day international series begins at Hampshire on 16 June.
Gayle, the fourth highest-scoring West Indian batsman in ODI cricket with 8,087 runs from 228 matches, has not played for them since their World Cup quarter-final defeat by Pakistan in March 2011.

The cavalier left-hander, who was involved in contract disputes with the WICB in 2009, when much of the team decided to take strike action, was left out of the team for a series with Pakistan soon after that 2011 World Cup defeat and was highly critical of the WICB and coach Ottis Gibson in a radio interview.
As his absence from the West Indies side continued he played in Twenty20 tournaments across the world, and was the leading scorer in this year's Indian Premier League with 733 runs, including a 128 from 62 balls.