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Blush is for girl, Brag is for boy.
I'm here, just to see your eyes for the first time. It's nice so hopefully we can win this game and have a drink after. Don't blush, baby."
Right, so you get the drift. It takes some cheek after all that to name your daughter, Blush. Not if you're Chris Gayle. You are #WorldBoss So you tell yourself and so says all of us. Now what if Gayle has a son, what do you think he'll name him? What's on top of Chris Gayle's mind? In addition to Chris Gayle, here are some possibilities:
If you thought you knew Chris Henry
Gayle, then you got another thing coming. The whole, “Don't blush, baby!”
episode is still pretty fresh in Gayle's mind, not yours?
After hitting the Hobart Hurricanes for 41 off 15 balls in The Big
Bash, Chris Gayle decided to hit on TV interviewer, Mel McLaughlin. Not one for
subtleties, Gayle got stuck right away: "I wanted to come and have an
interview with you as well. That's the reason why I'm here, just to see your eyes for the first time. It's nice so hopefully we can win this game and have a drink after. Don't blush, baby."
Right, so you get the drift. It takes some cheek after all that to name your daughter, Blush. Not if you're Chris Gayle. You are #WorldBoss So you tell yourself and so says all of us. Now what if Gayle has a son, what do you think he'll name him? What's on top of Chris Gayle's mind? In addition to Chris Gayle, here are some possibilities:
1. Mallya: The Gayle-Mallya relationship,
whatever it was, was oddly special. Mallya invested more of himself in Gayle
than he did in all his companies combined. And Gayle by the look of it, partied
way harder in the IPL with RCB than he did in the Caribbean. Not far flung then
that Gayle names his son Mallya, Vijay or even Dr for that matter. Don't put it
beyond Gayle to call him Dr Vijay Mallya or Dr Dolittle as a dig at Mallya.
By that same logic, he could also name
his son, Siddhrath Dolittle though unlikely. Of course all this sounds a little
tame. A more logical or in Gayle's case, illogical name could be...
2. Kingfisher: After Blush, I'm
beginning to get a sense of Gayle's outlandish naming trajectory. If he's
thinking cricket leagues and all like he was with Blush, then RCB's bound to be
up there, and I bet that Kingfisher jingle runs in his head all the time, don't
put it beyond him to call the boy, King Fisher. Going by that thinking or lack
of, RCB too is a possibility – Roy Chall Banga , yeah, he could stop at that to
give the name some reggae rhythms.
3. Champion: The World T20 was a big,
big deal for the West Indies as was DJ Bravo's “Champion” song. Highly possible
that when the baby boy comes along, he'll be young master Champion. Or the way
they were pronouncing it, could be the way he calls and spells it – Chaaamp-yun.
4. In batting order – sticking with the
World T20 triumph, Chris Gayle not one for half measures, could name the boy
after the whole team (in batting order, starting with Daddy Gayle) Chris
Johnson Marlon Lendl Dwayne Andre Darren Carlos Denesh Samuel Sulieman – of
course, the other ten players' names could be one helluva long middle name, so
Chris Jr's name could be – Chris JMLDADCDSS Gayle Jr. Guess Gayle Jr won't have
any dearth of God Fathers. Just by virtue of his long name, the boy could be
eligible for Sri Lankan cricket.
5. Kingston: Proud Jamaican that he is,
not beyond Gayle to name his boy either Kingston or Jamaica. Or even Port of
Spain where he made his Test debut. Also don’t rule out Gayle calling his son
Toronto (where he made his ODI debut) or Auckland (where he played his first
T20I).
6. T20: Chris Gayle is possibly the
ultimate T20 gun for hire. At last count, he had played for more T20 franchises
than there were. Some of the teams he’s played for: Barisal Burners,
Dhaka Gladiators, Jamaica Tallawahs, Kolkata Knight Riders, Lahore Qalandars,
Matabeleland Tuskers, Melbourne Renegades, Royal Challengers Bangalore,
Somerset, Stanford Superstars, Sydney Thunder, Western Australia,
Worcestershire. Depending on whimsy, the poor boy could be named anything from
Qalandar to Thunder.
7. Brag: Just as pink is for girls,
blue is for boys, so too “Blush” is for girl, “Brag” is for boy.
Keep-it-simple-stupid, this is Chris Gayle. Stereotype it. It’s kid-naming, not
rocket science. It seems highly possible, that when Blush’s little bro comes
along, he’ll be called Brag. Nothing will be cooler for #worldboss Chris Gayle,
and he does like a joke, no matter on whom or what. As for Gayle’s reaction,
it’ll be a succinct LOLZ.
