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The Bushfire Bash between Glichrist XI and Ponting XI brought back so many memories and pictures like these! Just heart-warming. But there’s so much that’s beautiful that can be totally spoiled by politics. The friendship between the two contemporary masters is one.

West Indies cricket has been in an absolute state of disarray for a long while now, the effects of which are seen in the underwhelming performances by the team in the past two and a half decades.


Nothing epitomizes the rot in the state of affairs than the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba, part of a US$850 million elite sports complex which was built with to host preliminary matches at the 2007 World Cup. If you’re wondering why have you never heard of it, that’s because it hasn’t hosted a single international game yet, thanks to alleged corruption and delay caused by differences among political parties.

So, how does Sachin Tendulkar come into the picture?

In 2017, it emerged that Brian Lara had requested one of the stands to be named after the Indian great. A sweet gesture and one that would have put the stadium in news for the right reasons for once. But politics is politics. The Indo-Trinidadian party UNC resisted the move.

According to a Hindustan Times report, the president of Trinidad and Tobago board, Azim Bassarath, dismissed the proposal saying, “India have so many stadia and I don’t know any of them have stands named after any of our West Indian greats so why must we name a stand after Tendulkar. I thought there would be stands named after Ian Bishop, or Larry Gomes or Gus Logie. Not Tendulkar.”

Three years on, while Lara and Tendulkar give cricket lovers another exhibition of mutual respect, the politics stricken stadium still awaits its first international fixture.
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