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It was ten years ago. I was in the clubhouse at the Cricket Club of India, watching an IPL match from the VIP box. Yusuf Pathan was murdering the bowling that day, on his way to a 37 ball hundred. I didn’t see much of this batting, though; it was my lucky day as I found myself seated next to the great Sir Garfield St.Auburn Sobers. My birthday, I felt, had arrived on Christmas day, so trivial matters as a record-breaking century were relegated to lower priority. Sobers had travelled to India to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the historic...