|| CF Correspondent ||

Chris Gayle lambasted Ramnaresh Sarwan-"worse than the Coronavirus", "snake", "vindictive", "immature", "stabbing people in the back", "despicable" – as  he felt he had a big role to ouster him from the Jamaica Tallawahs.

"When I came back to the Tallawahs, Sarwan was an assistant coach. Myself and Sarwan had a discussion, he wanted to be the head coach. When I left Jamaica Tallawahs, that team was a high-spirited team. (But) the amount of complaints I used to get when I wasn't there, the amount of problems they had with Sarwan - Russell was the captain at that time - the amount of problem that Sarwan and the captain have...so many players were traumatized because of Sarwan," Gayle said in a video outburst, speaking about his release from Jamaica - where he had hoped he would end his cricketing career adding that he had told Sarwan he was not experienced enough to be a head coach.

"The amount of lies he used to tell on the players...him and the team management were not getting on," said Gayle who felt Sarwan had the control of the team thanks to his closeness with the team owner. Apart from imposing team curfews, restricting the players, complaining that there were too many Jamaicans in the teams, Gayle said Sarwan also influenced the overseas players to "make a mockery of him in front of the younger players", which eventually led to an outburst from the opening batsman in a team meeting and nearly got physical.

"That goes to show your own people undermine you. Doesn't matter how far you and them are coming from, they still undermine you," said Gayle. "Out of that era - 1996 - I'm the only one active, playing. Everyone else retired. I'm the last man standing within that era...and I'm still going strong. So it kind of hurt them to see Chris Gayle still playing and still being successful. I'm talking about past and present players. But I'm dealing with you Sarwan. I'll deal (with the others) whenever that time comes," said Gayle,

 
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