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Chris Gayle left the team after playing half a season from Punjab Kings in 2021.
West Indies legendary batter Chris Gayle revealed that he was treated badly while playing with Punjab Kings in IPL. Despite being a senior player in the league, I was considered as a new player.
IPL Legend Gayle spoke on your IPL career in Shubhankar Mishra’s podcast on YouTube. He told that the team captain Rahul also tried to handle me, but I was going to depression.
First for the first time in life Gayle said in podcast, ‘I was not considered like a senior player in Punjab. For the first time in life, I started going into depression. While talking to Anil Kumble (coach), I had tears from my eyes. I was deeply saddened by his work and franchisees. ‘
Gayle further said, ‘Punjab captain KL Rahul tried to handle me. He said, stop Chris, you will play the next match, but I just said, best wishes to you. Then I packed my bag and left from there.

Playing with Punjab Kings in 2018, Chris Gayle wished KL Rahul (left) with his social media handle.
Gill played 4 seasons from Punjab Gayle made an IPL debut with Kolkata Knight Riders in 2009. After playing 2 seasons, he was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2011. He spent the longest time in RCB and also brought his team to the finals 2 times. He scored 5 centuries from Bengaluru and also scored the largest individual score of 175 runs in IPL.
In 2018, Gayle was bought by Punjab Kings. He played 11 and 13 matches the first 2 seasons. Then in 2020, Gayle got a chance to play in just 7 matches. He was fed 10 matches in 2021, in which he could only score 193 runs. In the middle of this season, he left Punjab Kings. After this, Gayle never sold in the IPL auction.

Chris Gayle (left) scored 1339 runs in 41 matches playing with Punjab Kings. These also included 1 century.
Last season joined RCB’s victory The IPL final of 2025 took place between PBKS and RCB. For these 2 teams, Gayle played 11 seasons. When Bengaluru won the IPL Trophy by defeating Punjab, RCB players called Gayle on podium and also took photographs with her. During this time, South African veteran AB de Villiers was also present on the podium. RCB also included Gayle in her hall of fame players.

The RCB’s IPL win during the victory Chris Gayle (wearing a turban), Virat Kohli (in between), AB de Villiers (right) and the rest of RCB players.
Rohit’s name not in Gayle’s best IPL team In YouTube Podcast, Gayle also chose his best IPL playing-11. In this, he did not give Mumbai Indians a place to Rohit Sharma and all -rounder Hardik Pandya, who won 5 titles under captaincy. In foreign players, he put de Villiers, Dwayne Bravo and Sunil Naren.
Gayle’s best IPL team: Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, AB de Villiers, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni, Dwayne Bravo, Sunil Narine, Jaspreet Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
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