My salad days with West Indies' summer knights
Jamie Alter
25-Feb-2013
AFP
Was it planned, or is it a symbolic fluke that today's Caribbean cricket carnival begins on the 40th anniversary of Sir Frank Worrell's death? Frank Keating, in the Guardian, fondly looks back at the
Caribbean influence in the most rich and significantly memorable passages of his cricket watching.
The West Indies today, and for the next two months, unites as a single entity - as it only does in its cricketing - to show its collective soul and spirit. You could say that no man was a more crucial catalyst than Sir Frank in establishing and stabilising the very cohesive essence of West Indies cricket, which is actually made up, of course, from a scattered comity of islands in the Gulf of Mexico each with disparate governance, character and cultures.
And in Mid-Day, a Mumbai-based tabloid, there's talk of how torchbearers of Kingston’s Melbourne Cricket Club are keeping the faith in their star player Marlon Samuels. They believe that their beloved Samuels can do no wrong and will never be involved in any activity that will harm his team, and no one knows Samuels better than the people out here.
Jamie Alter is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo