Chris Gayle Lashes Out At Airline For Refusing Him To Board Flight

Taking to Twitter, the Windies cricketer wrote: “So disappointed @emirates, I have a confirmed flight and they gonna tell me that they are over booked"

West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle slammed Emirates Airline on Monday for refusing him to board a flight despite having a confirmed ticket to travel. Taking to Twitter, the Windies cricketer wrote: “So disappointed @emirates, I have a confirmed flight and they gonna tell me that they are over booked, WTF! Not only that, @emirates want me to travel economy when it’s a business class ticket - so now I have to travel on a later flight! Just ridiculous @emirates! Bad experience.”

So disappointed @emirates, I have a confirmed flight and they gonna tell me that they are over booked, WTF! Not only that, @emirates want me to travel economy when it’s a business class ticket - so now I have to travel on a later flight! Just ridiculous @emirates!Bad experience😡

— Chris Gayle (@henrygayle) November 4, 2019

Gayle last featured  in an international match in August against India and scored 72 runs off 42 balls at a strike rate of 175.60. India defeated West Indies in that match by seven wickets, courtesy Virat Kohli’s brilliant hundred. Gayle is West Indies’ top run getter in ODIs with 10,480 runs from 301 matches. The hard hitting opener made his international ODI debut in 1999 against India in Toronto. He has notched up 25 hundreds and struck  54 fifties in ODI cricket. West Indies is scheduled to play three ODIs and as many T20Is against Afghanistan, starting from November 6. All the matches will be played at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.