5 West Indies legends who need the CPL to come back

#2. Chris Gayle

The tall batsman will hope to unleash another 'Gayle Storm' here at the CPL

He is the highest run scorer in T20s across the world and has also hit the most number of sixes in T20s, but for West Indies cricket board, Chris Gayle is not their first choice opener.

The left-hand batsman whose batting heroics and his love affair with monstrous sixes are well-known is currently out of the West Indies' national team courtesy of his stern relations with the board and also due to his year long bad patch.

In the 2016 edition of Bangladesh Premier League, he scored 109 runs in five innings at an average of 21.80. In 2017, in IPL, he averaged 22.22, his lowest in all seasons and scored only one fifty in nine innings.

After featuring in West Indies' successful world cup campaign in 2016, the opening batsman was out of the West Indies' national team for more than a year and staged a comeback in July 2017 against India in the one off T20.

It was a forgettable comeback as he scored only 18 runs from 20 balls in that match and this scratchy inning may result in his omission from the team.

Thus, the biggest entertainer of the T20 format is featuring in the CPL 2017 with his career at the stake. In the last one year, he hasn't scored runs in T20 leagues and is also out of his national team. So, this CPL would prove to be a huge moment in Gayle's T20 career. With strong performances, he can reestablish the fear he once inflicted in the minds of bowlers but at the same time, a mediocre season would only add to his worries.