Gayle invites more controversy

West Indies' cricket superstar Chris Gayle may have placed himself in more hot water after an in-depth interview with UK magazine The Times came out yesterday that was replete with sexual innuendos fired at the female reporter, Charlotte Edwardes. The interview also carried Gayle's claims that the controversy he found himself embroiled in after his interview with an Australian female television reporter was caused more by his being a black man than anything he said.

The interview was conducted during his ongoing Indian Premier League stint and on the occasion of the publication of his autobiography 'Six Machine ... I don't like cricket, I love it'.

In the reporter's own words 'his pantomime bad boy is a bit of a buffer', his rambunctious utterances gave way to Gayle becoming serious, 'his voice changing from laid-back singsong into a deep, rapid-fire rat-a-tat, to tell me that I just don't get it'.

“If that had been a white footballer saying that, nothing would've happened. Rugby player, nothing would've happened. Hollywood actor? Tsk,” he is quoted as saying in the interview, and continued: “They would cover for other people, but not for a black man.”

He also went on to say that Jamaican Olympic gold-winner Usain Bolt also has to deal with 'racism', citing the story of a reporter going to Jamaica just to dig up dirt on a 'successful black man'.