“You have been watching West Indies cricket for 70 years – give me three outstanding memories,” a friend asks me.
Well, my first vivid memory is of being in the Schoolboy Stand at the Oval in Port-of-Spain in 1948 and seeing Andy Ganteaume hit a century against England. I remember it well. The excitement as he approached his maiden century in a Test – the joy when he made it. He never again played for the West Indies and I learned later he was reprimanded for slow batting in that innings. Nonsense. It was a beautiful innings.
Then, of course, there was that first unforgettable square cover drive by
