Chris Gayle to use golden bat during BBL 2015

Chris Gayle will unveil a new golden bat in Australia on Saturday. Bat manufacturers Spartan have produced a signature gold model for the colourful West Indian star. And it seems it has been given the green light for action when the Melbourne Renegades’ play the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League Twenty20 match at the Gabba.

CA head of cricket operations Sean Cary gave green signal to the prospect. “Cricket Australia would assume that all players are using equipment that complies with the laws of Cricket and, if that’s the case, there should be no issue,” he said.

“There is a light spray of a beautiful gold colour over the bat, it is something that cricket hasn’t seen before,” Spartan boss Kunal Sharma said.

“We went and asked the kids what they wanted to see and they said they wanted a colourful bat. So we thought, why don’t we make the bat more attractive”. We have infused a gold colour in the timber wood of the bat and there is sheen of a gold spray over the bat.” he added

The flamboyant Gayle, who calls himself the ”World Boss” on social media, tweeted a hint about his golden bat a fortnight before swaggering to Australia.

There were some initial plans to use real gold in the bat – which would have been reminiscent of the famous scenes of when Dennis Lillee used an aluminium bat in a 1979 Ashes Test in Perth. However, that plan was scuttled with Spartan quickly realising it would never be approved by cricket officials.

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