The sweet Big Bird of youth
The Guardian's Tanya Aldred reminisces about the 1984 West Indies tour of England, when she and her similarly agog brothers queued for the autograph of the mighty Joel Garner
Andrew Miller
25-Feb-2013
The Guardian's Tanya Aldred reminisces about the 1984 West Indies tour of England, when she and her similarly agog brothers queued for the autograph of the mighty Joel Garner. How times have changed. Twenty-three years later, and there's no such interest in the sorry bunch of representatives from the Caribbean.
We collected cards of the players, as our dad dutifully visited every Texaco garage in Surrey to ensure four sets of dark green paper folders were filled. Desmond Haynes was particularly rare. It is hard to imagine the same fights going on today for a dog-eared card of Daren Ganga or Jerome Taylor.
Andrew Miller is the former UK editor of ESPNcricinfo and now editor of The Cricketer magazine