Curtly Ambrose is an achiever who has earned his stripes to have an opinion of his own which someone like Chris Gayle must learn to “respect” even if it’s not in his favour, said iconic Sir Vivian Richards.

Ambrose had told a radio channel in the Caribbean that Gayle shouldn’t be “an automatic choice” in the West Indies playing XI for the T20 World Cup as he has very little performance to show even in franchise cricket for the past 18 months. To this Gayle had lashed out on Ambrose, saying the former fast bowler was a “negative person” for whom he had “no respect.”