It is not often that two West Indian cricketers get their autobiographies published in the same year, but this year will see the release of books — Six Machine by Chris Gayle and Mind the Windows by Tino Best — both colourful characters, who will have plenty to say about West Indies cricket administration and about themselves.

Gayle's content is unknown, but Best's book is a potential bestseller, going by recently released pre-publication excerpts that said he bedded 500-650 women in his playing career. To be fair to Best, he did say in an interview that his sexploits were only a small part of the book and there is also stuff about a young lad growing up in Barbados, dreaming of playing for the West Indies, realising that dream, and going on to bowl in front of a packed Wankhede Stadium to Sachin Tendulkar in his farewell Test in 2013.