Gayle goes to Somerset !

               

His arrival should help reinvigorate Somerset, where Maynard took charge over the winter, after last season's Blast,

when they failed to reach the quarter-finals for the first time since 2008.

"I'm excited about joining Somerset for the NatWest T20 Blast this year," Gayle said.

"Many of the club's members and supporters will know that I came close to playing for the county in 2012

and I have always felt that, if I was able to, I wanted to honour that commitment to Somerset.

I'm looking forward to coming to Taunton and scoring some runs."

As well as hitting the fastest T20 ton - off 30 balls - last month

Gayle became the first player to score a World Cup double-hundred.

Gayle has made 13 T20 hundreds, more than twice as many as the next player on the list, David Warner; from 195 matches,

he averages 42.01 at a strike rate of 147.18.