{"id":1451,"date":"2012-09-13T21:44:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2012-09-13T21:44:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:14:20","slug":"bolt-has-bowling-talent-says-west-indies-gayle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/bolt-has-bowling-talent-says-west-indies-gayle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolt has bowling talent, says West Indies Gayle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_5_1_18_1347552550411_241\">West Indies&#8217; opening batsman\u00a0Chris Gayle rates the bowling of fellow Jamaican\u00a0Usain Bolt\u00a0and reckons the six-times\u00a0Olympic gold medallist\u00a0has what it takes to excel at the game.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_5_1_18_1347552550411_248\">The sprinter expressed his desire to repackage himself as a big-hitting cricketer in\u00a0Australia&#8217;s\u00a0Big Bash League\u00a0following an invitation by\u00a0Shane Warne\u00a0after he repeated his Beijing 2008 feat with three more golds at this year&#8217;s London Games.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_5_1_18_1347552550411_348\">Australian spin great Warne contacted Bolt about joining him at the Melbourne Stars club in the Twenty20 league in December.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_5_1_18_1347552550411_346\">&#8220;He wouldn&#8217;t embarrass himself. In a charity game, he actually played against me and almost knocked my head off with a good competitive bouncer,&#8221; Gayle told reporters as his team started training for the Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_5_1_18_1347552550411_253\">&#8220;It is nothing to take lightly. I don&#8217;t see anything wrong,&#8221; added foremr\u00a0West Indies captain Gayle, who communicates on a daily basis with Bolt.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_5_1_18_1347552550411_255\">The sprinter grew up playing street cricket and soccer in Jamaica and during the\u00a0London Games\u00a0said he wanted a trial at English Premier League giants Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>West Indies start their World Cup campaign against Australia on September 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Indies&#8217; opening batsman\u00a0Chris Gayle rates the bowling of fellow Jamaican\u00a0Usain Bolt\u00a0and reckons the six-times\u00a0Olympic gold medallist\u00a0has what it takes to excel at the game. The sprinter expressed his desire to repackage himself as a big-hitting cricketer in\u00a0Australia&#8217;s\u00a0Big Bash League\u00a0following an invitation by\u00a0Shane Warne\u00a0after he repeated his Beijing 2008 feat with three more golds at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":1452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-usain-bolt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}