Gayle mentions this in his autobiography "Six Machine: I Don't Like Cricket...I Love It", published by Penguin Random House.
While playing for RCB in the IPL, Gayle heard of Mallya's villa from team manager George Avinash. Incidentally, there was a five-day break between two matches and Gayle was quite keen to go there though his teammates weren't.
"It's bigger than most hotels. It's cooler than any house I've ever seen," writes Gayle.
Speaking elaborately, he says, "It's James Bond, it's Playboy Mansion, it's the land of plenty in white concrete and glass. I'm trying not to stare, but there's so much to stare at that there's only room in my mind for one thought: 'Chris, this gonna be interesting...'
to know what he would like to eat, Gayle asked him the menu. The cook replied, "There is no menu, sir. You are the menu."
"This is new for World Boss. Seems there is World Boss and Universe Boss. Whole new worlds. Bosses of things the boy from 1C St James Road, Rollington Town, didn't even know existed. No milk and Nutribun, although if you wanted milk and Nutribun they'd bring it to you," writes Gayle.
He got a chance to go into the villa's private movie theatre and into the garage, which had so many cars, a Mercedes so big he couldn't even work out what it is.
Gayle then goes on to narrate: "He's driving through the States, and he sees a guy riding it. He tells the guy he wants the bike. And he's the boss, the Mallya Boss. What he wants, he gets. So he asks the guy how much it would take to sell it, literally climb off it right there and give it to him, and the guy names his price, and Mallya counts out the bills and buys it. Has it shipped back to India, and then down to Goa and the villa."
"Brrrrm! I feel like the Terminator, screeching around with my shirt open and my shades down and nah, no helmet, because it's warm and it's a Harley and it's the Kingfisher villa and I'm the king of the villa, the Kingfisher king, and woohoo, who knew this thing could go that fast?"
"'Would sir like to ride an elephant?' 'You got an elephant here?' Now even Vijay Mallya doesn't own his own elephant. But he's good friends with a man who does, so soon I'm riding an elephant, which has less of the speed of the Harley but all the same swagger."
Gayle says he didn't want to leave but had to.
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