Chris Gayle - file

Sidelined West Indies opener Chris Gayle could make a return to the West Indies team if everything goes according to plan during a planned meeting between himself and officials of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and CARICOM, today.

The meeting, which is slated to be held in the St Vincent and the Grenadines, is expected to deal with matters pertaining to on-going impasse between the hard-hitting left-hander and the WICB.

The impasse has resulted in Gayle not representing the team for close to a year.

"A meeting has been arranged for tomorrow morning (today) between Gayle, the WICB and a few heads of Government in a bid to arrive at an amicable solution that could result in Gayle returning to the team," said Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) secretary, Fritz Harris.

"As we are all aware, there has been efforts to have the matter resolved in recent weeks, including all the workings coming out of CARICOM etc., and I suspect that this meeting is a sort of culmination of the efforts," he added.

Information reaching Star Sports is that Gayle is expected to make an apology or make a retraction of the statements he made during a controversial radio interview in June last year.

During the interview, Gayle openly criticised officials of the WICB and West Indies team.