Gayle had signed on for BPL 7: BCB CEO
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury said that West Indian superstar Chris Gayle's signature was on the document provided to the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) after the Jamaican had said that he did not know how he could be picked by BPL side Chattogram Challengers for the upcoming seventh edition.
Nizamuddin had told The Daily Star earlier today that he would look into the document given by Gayle's agent to see whether it contained the player's signature.
"We follow a certain procedure before putting a player's name on the draft list," Chowdhury told The Daily Star after looking into the document. "The case was the same with Gayle. The document we were given by his agent contained his [Gayle's] signature. After you asked me about it, I inspected the document."
Gayle had said after playing his last match for Jozi Stars in the South African Mzansi Super League that he will take a break from cricket, which would include missing Australia's Big Bash League and West Indies' ODI tour of India in December.
"I am not going to the Big Bash. I'm not sure what cricket will come up, I don't even know how my name reached the BPL, but I have been drafted in a team and I don't even know how that happened," Gayle told the media after Stars' loss to Tshwane Spartans on November 24.
Chattogram Challengers team director and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) director Jalal Yunus informed The Daily Star, that after picking Gayle in the November 16 players' draft, the team had even held negotiations with Gayle.
"We picked Gayle at the first opportunity. All our plans were made with him in mind. Now, if he doesn't come, we will be in big trouble. After picking him we held discussions with him about payment. But we have not heard from him for the last few days. Now we hear this... I don't know where the problem lies," Yunus said.
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