On Thursday, Gayle airmailed a picture of himself and his
wife on Instagram to welcome “the arrival” of his “beautiful daughter ‘Blush’
to this world”.
For
anyone not familiar with what seems to have inspired the name, the story goes
back a few months. Ten Network reporter Mel McLaughlin found herself being
asked out for a drink during an interview with the burly West Indian after he
blasted 41 runs off 15 balls in Australia’s Big Bash League (BBL).
Live on
air, Gayle, who later claimed he was just joking said he was happy to be
interviewed by McLaughlin “just to see your eyes for the first time”. “Nice, so
hopefully we can win this game and we can have a drink after,” he said. “Don’t
blush baby,” the Jamaican added, provoking the uninterested McLaughlin to
shake her head and reply, “I’m not blushing.”
But it
seems the joke is never getting old. Gayle took to Twitter later and thanked
everyone “for the sweet and kind messages.” He added that “Blush won’t Blush,
my baby.” Gayle was fined $7,000 by his Big Bash team The Melbourne Renegades
and received a lot of condemnation from the cricketing world for the comments
which seem to have inspired his baby
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