The West In­dies play­ers cre­at­ed quite a stir af­ter they pa­rad­ed the Gang­nam style dance dur­ing their vic­to­ri­ous 2012 ICC Cham­pi­ons League cam­paign in Sri Lan­ka. Now they are do­ing the Cham­pi­on dance with the hope that they will car­ry the per­for­mance in­to the fi­nals as they did two years ago.

Back then the rave was the Gang­nam style dance which was pi­lot­ed by Ko­re­an artist singer PSY. The West In­dies adopt­ed that song. The song be­came syn­ony­mous with West In­dies T20 crick­et.

Now the "Cham­pi­on" is clos­er to home as the song is be­ing ren­dered by West In­dies crick­eter Dwayne Bra­vo. The all rounder who is part of the West In­dies team at this year's ICC World T20 in In­dia launched the song and ac­com­pa­ny­ing dance ear­li­er this week in Los An­ge­les. He took along the 'World boss' Chris Gayle with him to launch the video and so far it has been a great suc­cess.

The track, which makes ref­er­ence to Gayle as well as oth­er sport­ing and po­lit­i­cal icons, is called Cham­pi­on. In the song Bra­vo, who has had suc­cess with oth­er mu­si­cal ven­tures in­clud­ing a sin­gle called Cha­lo Cha­lo, de­clares that 'every­body knows Chris Gayle is a cham­pi­on'.

Aside from him­self, the oth­er peo­ple he deems wor­thy of a men­tion in the song in­clude West In­di­an leg­end Bri­an Lara, NBA star Michael Jor­dan, US Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma, for­mer South African pres­i­dent Nel­son Man­dela, ten­nis star Ser­e­na Williams and Ja­maican sprint­er Us­ain Bolt.

The crick­eter, who goes by DJ Bra­vo launched "Cham­pi­on" in part­ner­ship with In­dia's lead­ing dig­i­tal agency VE­GA En­ter­tain­ment. The song which is writ­ten by Cor­nelius Da­ley and di­rect­ed by Joseph Fer­nan­do is al­ready mak­ing waves in In­dia.

Dur­ing the West In­dies open­ing match of the World T20 in Mum­bai on Wednes­day, Gayle pro­vid­ed the en­ter­tain­ment for the crowd to get in­to the "Cham­pi­on" with his mas­ter­ful bat­ting dis­play. While the big man was strik­ing six­es in­to the stands, the fans which num­bered around 18,000 were do­ing the Cham­pi­on dance. On the field, Bra­vo had ear­li­er mar­ket­ed the song when he took his two wick­ets and Gayle on reach­ing his cen­tu­ry did the same.

The Mum­bai fans were cap­ti­vat­ed and even af­ter the match they con­tin­ued the dance un­til ba­ton wield­ing po­lice re­moved them from the play­ers' en­trance as the West In­dies team was dri­ving out the venue. Bra­vo and Gayle though would have been pleased to see their sub­jects do­ing the Cham­pi­on.