Cricket great Chris Gayle to throw opening pitch at Blue Jays game

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Cricket great Chris Gayle to throw opening pitch at Blue Jays game
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Cricket great Chris Gayle to throw opening pitch at Jays game, looks to promote sport

The Universe Boss is embracing his role as an ambassador for the sport of cricket.

“It’s good to have a sportsman from a different sport, both combining together, it’s really good,” said Gayle, sitting in the Blue Jays dugout at Rogers Centre and holding a baseball bat. “That builds more of a relationship between the two sports. Gayle is also the only player to score more than 14,000 runs and hit more than 1,000 sixes in Twenty20 cricket, the shortest format of the sport that has only 20 overs.

“The best place to start is by watching the Universe Boss. That’s me,” said Gayle, who is also goes by the nickname Gayle Force. “That’s where you want to say ‘hey, this guy’s very entertaining, let me go and check him out.’

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