How things change - Gayle admits he's Bolly's bunny

Doug the Rug has scalped Gayle four times in two Tests and two ODIs this summer.

Gayle has been widely quoted as saying "He has my measure definitely" in today's press.

Bit of a change from the "What's the other guy's name? Bollinger? Bollinger. This will be the first time I am going up against him. It's a challenge. I haven't seen much of him to be honest with you. I'm sure we'll get some clippings and take a look at him and see what we can make of him." before Dougy's call up.

Then again, it could have been a bit of Gayle humour earlier...

Yeah, Gayle seems to be pretty tongue in cheek most of the time . . . and certainly doesn't seem anywhere near as full of bravado as the press sometimes make him out.

I was impressed by the way he pulled his head in in that innings in Adelaide . . . if he could try the same again, the Windies might set a decent chase in the ODIs as well.

Probably needs to bat for more than one delivery, but.

get his eye in for the first one, eh?

So he f*cking manned up. Good for him. One to cross off my 'international cricketer being a f*cking jessie' list.

Talking of bunnies, Gambhir faced four balls on Monday, three of which were delivered by Morkel. Two of them dismissed him.

BTW Gayle has revised the scoreline to 3-2.

"Bolly's bitch" has a better ring to it.

Gayle has definitely achieved minor bunny status now.

But he has a long way to go to catch up with Ponting v Jerome Taylor bunny status (10 dismissals in 12).