More than half a century ago West Indies produced a cricketer by the name of Garfield Sobers – arguably the best all-rounder that the world has ever seen. Then following him our eyes were also fortunate enough see the conquests of cricketers in the calibre of Ian Botham, Imran Khan and Kapil Dev or even Richard Hadlee who could let either department of their cricketing ability make them wear the country’s national crest without much sweat on their selectors’ brows.