Prominent West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has said that he withdrew from the drafting of the Indian Premier League (IPL) this year because he was given “less honour” in the two previous seasons of the T20 tournament.

Gayle, the top scorer and self-proclaimed ‘Universe Boss’, has long been popular in the IPL. He has hit the most 357 sixes in the league.

Gayle played 10 matches for the Punjab Kings in the previous edition of the IPL-inspired code, after which he was forced to leave due to fatigue caused by the ‘bio-secure bubble’.

According to the British newspaper The Mirror, Gail said that “the way the IPL has been conducted for the last few years, I feel that I have not been treated properly.”

“It simply came to our notice then. After doing so much for the game and the IPL, you (Gail) don’t get the respect you deserve.

That’s why I said OK. That’s it. I will not bother to participate in the draft. So I left it as it is. There is always life after cricket so I am trying to adjust to normalcy.

However, Gayle, a 42-year-old Jamaican who scored a record 175 runs in the IPL in 2013, wants to return to the next season of the money-laundering tournament. “I’m coming back next year,” Gail said. They need me. ”

“I represented three IPL teams, Kolkata, RCB (Royal Challengers Bangalore) and Punjab,” Gail said. Between RCB and Punjab, I would love to win with one of the two teams.

The left-handed batsman and off-spinner have played in 103 Tests, 301 ODIs and 79 T20 Internationals for the West Indies. He played his last T20 match for the national team in November last year.

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