Landmark under threat

How well we recall the look on the face of Sir Garfield Sobers on April 18, 1994, as the greatest cricketer ever watched from the pavilion at the Antigua Recreation Ground with Lara closing in on his standard of 365 not out which had stood since 1958. Yes, there was pride at the full flowering of another West Indian batting talent. But you could have also seen a tinge of regret that, 36 years after he stamped his own indelible mark on the game at the age of 21, here was this 23-year-old phenomenon on the verge of knocking him off the top of this particular statistical heap.