BLASTING FOR RUNS
BLASTING FOR RUNS (Title acknowledged from a book by Kanhai with the same name) Harry Bissoon 9/06/2021 In the 50's and early 60's when I had just crossed over that threshold that led into my teenage years, and when Bookers held sway, with a tight grip, over the land, cricket was the king of sports in my village, on the north eastern coast of South America. Soccer(football), volleybal, basketball, and horse racing, were also popular sports, but didn't create the same excitement and intense expectations that cricket did. Cricket was the one underlying factor that held the colorful social fabric of the community together, unmindful of the diversified structure of its makeup. The Springlands cricket ground, I in my village, which was managed, and controlled by Bookers, as they also did with the Springlands Race Course, and most of the other sporting activities, hummed with active and vibrant anticipation during the weekends. I was one of the waterboys when these games wer...