GAYLE TO JOIN SOMERSET (T20 Blast) - ANNOUNCEMENT CAUSES WEBSITE CRASH

Trescothick say "We're delighted to have him over"

"The moment is was announced our website crashed. The hype around Chris coming, along with other players from world cricket is fantastic. It's great for the competition"

Tickets are going fast.

Match on Friday 12th June vs Surrey is SOLD OUT

Quote:[size=1.35em]Every Friday night between now and 24 July, there is going to be T20 cricket going on somewhere in the country, often featuring some of the finest players in the world.

Chris Gayle will be with Somerset, Kumar Sangakkara with Surrey, Tillakaratne Dilshan with Derbyshire, Brendon McCullum with Warwickshire, Glenn Maxwell with Yorkshire, Shahid Afridi with Northamptonshire. The list goes on.

Advance ticket sales stretch to 157,000, a new high, and the ECB is anticipating that records will be set for the biggest overall attendance. Yorkshire v Lancashire on 5 June is already sold out, as are a couple of Somerset’s games.

When they announced that Gayle had signed, the surge in demand was so great that their website crashed.[/size]