Kolkata,
\nBe it Chris Gayle or Andre Russell, the West Indian cricketers have been in big demand in T20 leagues across the world. Former Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak says maybe it could be because the \u2018powerful\u2019 Caribbeans get \u2018bored\u2019 playing Test cricket.<\/p>\n
Gayle smashed an unbeaten 104 off 63 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad, who have arguably the best bowling attack of the league, to fashion Kings XI Punjab\u2019s 15-run victory on Thursday. Gayle has looked in ominous form in the two matches he has played so far, and so does Andre Russell \u2014 the Jamaican struck a 12-ball 41 in KKR\u2019s 71-run victory over Delhi a few days back. And then there\u2019s Sunil Narine, too \u2014 he has been spearheading the KKR challenge both with ball and bat. Besides, the likes of Dwayne Bravo (Chennai Super Kings), Kieron Pollard and Evin Lewis (both Mumbai Indians) are also the core members of their respective franchises.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirstly, they enjoy it I think. They get bored playing the long format of the game. A lot of them are playing all the leagues around the world,\u201d Streak said. \u201cYou are getting to a stage where guys are making a career solely out of playing T20 cricket. They play in PSL (Pakistan), CPL (Caribbean), BBL (Big Bash), IPL. They\u2019ve got physical attributes, the power. The guys like Pollard, Russell are physically strong, even their mis-hits go over the boundary,\u201d said Streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kolkata, Be it Chris Gayle or Andre Russell, the West Indian cricketers have been in big demand in T20 leagues across the world. Former Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak says maybe it could be because the \u2018powerful\u2019 Caribbeans get \u2018bored\u2019 playing Test cricket. Gayle smashed an unbeaten 104 off 63 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad, who have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28730,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions\/28730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}