Whilst I was hoping to see footage of the fastest man in the world, Puma’s Usain Bolt running six runs for a normal persons two, I don’t necessarily mind this latest intelligence we have received. Namely, his bowling West Indies cricket captain Chris Gayle for 22.

Blind!

Check it out.

The Jamaica Observer (as you do) reports:

DISCOVERY BAY, St Ann – Triple Olympic gold medallists and world record holder Usain Bolt created quite a stir at the Kaiser Sports Club here Sunday when he bowled West Indies cricket captain Chris Gayle for a measly 22 runs.

Bolt, using his childhood experience as a young cricketer, at medium pace, bowled Gayle shortly after the West Indies captain hit him for six to send spectators scampering for cover.

“It feels good, I love cricket from I was a child and I thoroughly enjoyed myself . I told him (Gayle), he wasn’t going to last,” Bolt said after his Trelawny All Stars XI was beaten by Gayle’s Kingston and St Andrew All Star XI for a place in the final.

Action was in the Chris Gayle-led CJ Sporting Goods Company Limited Charity 15/15 Pro cricket competition where a throng of past and present West Indies and Jamaican cricketers engaged each other.

“It was a good game . I am really happy for the turnout and I must thank everybody, all the players, past and present, all the sponsors . this charity game it was really good,” Gayle said adding that at least 10 schools from Kingston, St Ann, Trelawny and St Mary will benefit.

[read more here]

Nice vibe.

My cricket career was fairly glittering, if I don’t say so myself. Highlights include smacking AJ Pelser for a six during house matches. A lot of the first team players weren’t aware how much “turn” there was on my home wicket, the mighty Lutgensvale B field.

Lest we forget the time Paul “St. John” Hodges smacked a ball into my ear whilst I was watching cars as I fielded. It blew the eardrum. I could blow bubbles out my ear underwater. No spice – ask Sister Francis at the sanatorium. I used to go and bath there, rather than showering (with a hole in my eardrum) at the boarding house. I remember spoiling the old duck and purposefully letting her catch glimpses of my main-chap.

Good times.

Oh, by the way….Floreat Founders!

[thanks brett]