Dhaka, Sept. 1 -- In the bowels of the southern stand at Sabina Park, a bunch of kids are idling away near a rusty statue of a batsman, frozen in his imperious follow through after an on-drive . Time and neglect have eroded its legs to the extent that it could tumble any time, like a batman losing his balance. For all it's worth now, it's a piece of scrap, unattended, and possibly unwanted, reports The Indian Express.

The crumbling statue is of George Headley, arguably the greatest Jamaican batsman and the first Caribbean batsman who entered the collective consciousness of the cricketing fraternity. Or, to reproduce their former prime minister Michael Manley's words, "black excellence personified in a white world and a white sport". Cert...