It would certainly be appropriate, as far as I can see it, to treat our players and give them the opportunity to bow out - especially players like Chris who have had unbelievable careers and won trophies for the West Indies." Gayle will most likely not be included in the three ODI matches as they will count towards the qualification for the 2023 World Cup through the Super League. "That Ireland series would represent that opportunity. "It's whether collectively we all feel that it's appropriate for him to have one last game at home to say farewell in a one-off game," Johnny Grave, CWI's chief executive, told the Mason and Guest radio show in Barbados last month. Gayle has earlier said that he would like to play his farewell game in Jamaica and the sole T20I match seems the perfect opportunity for him should CWI decide to include him in the squad. If not, I’ll announce it a long time and then I’ll be joining DJ Bravo in the backend and say thanks to each and everyone but I can’t say that as yet," said Chris Gayle during Facebook Live chat with ICC after Australia vs West Indies match. I didn’t announce any retirement but they actually give me one game in Jamaica to go in front of my home crowd, then I can say 'hey guys, thank you so much.' Let’s see. Now Cricket West Indies (CWI) have announced three ODIs and a sole T20I match against Ireland in Jamaica from 8 to 16 January. However, he soon revealed that he will not be retiring from international cricket that soon and that he wishes to play his farewell game in his hometown in Jamaica. Hopefully we can find the right mix of these young guys coming up and making us step up and hopefully come in and contributing to the success in West Indies cricket," he added.Earlier in November just after the West Indies was knocked out of the ICC T20 World Cup 2021, their star batsman Chris Gayle was rumoured to have played his last game. If you look around the world, there are other teams, and for us I'm looking forward to it and I'm very, very excited. "I think in between there, what we need is another tournament. It's something for me personally I'm excited about and it's the end of a generation but there's a lot of conversations that need to take place of how you're going to make a transformation from the club cricket, or even CPL into international cricket because there's a big step up," said Pollard. "So it's something we need to look at but there are some cricketers and a lot of young cricketers looking forward to playing and contributing to the West Indies cricket. "When we had the Caribbean T20, that was an opportunity for people to bring new talents from different parts of the Caribbean and we are able to have a sort of nucleus for this last generation also but with the inception since CPL come in, yes, it's a franchise-base system, but we have only the opportunity to sort of recycle the same players over and over and over again. The 34-year Pollard, who himself was plagued by poor form in the tournament, highlighted that with little or no infusion of new talent, the same players were being "recycled" time and again. "One of the things for us that we need to do, especially in the Caribbean, is we need to have another tournament other than CPL (Caribbean Premier League), where we can unearth new talents," said Pollard. The attacking batsman asked Cricket West Indies (CWI) to start another tournament, other than the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), in order to unearth "new talents" after bowing out of the race for a semifinal berth. However, Pollard's comment after the 20-run defeat against Sri Lanka on Thursday was an eye-opener for cricket administrators in the Caribbean
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