Chappell feels that Gayle should be banned worldwide

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Former Australia captain Ian Chappell believes that a worldwide ban should be imposed on West Indies opener Chris Gayle following the comments he made to Ten Network sports reporter Mel McLaughlin.

Gayle for fined $10,000 for his remarks to McLaughlin and Fairfax Media recently claimed that the 36-year-old had indecently exposed himself to a woman during the 2015 World Cup.

“I wouldn’t have a problem if Cricket Australia said to the clubs, ‘he’s never to be contracted again in this country’,” Chappell was quoted as saying by the Australian Associated Press. “And I also wouldn’t have a problem if Cricket Australia said to the ICC, ‘what we’re doing should be worldwide’.

“You’d have to talk to the individual countries then… but I wouldn’t have a problem if it was tabled at an ICC meeting that Cricket Australia said, ‘this is what we’re doing and we would recommend that everybody else do the same’. How are you going to stop it otherwise?”

While Gayle said that his comments to McLaughlin were a “simple joke”, Chappell branded the West Indian opening batsman as a serial offender.

“If it was a one-off thing, yeah, slap him with a USD 10,000 fine and say ‘mate, don’t do it again’,” Chappell said. “But every woman I spoke to (about Gayle) who’s working at the cricket, you got the same answer from. They were quite adamant about it.”