West Indies 1999. We’re 2–1 down after three Tests. Won the first easy, lost the next couple to Brian Lara; two incredible innings. West Indies cricket was struggling, Brian was getting stabbed for his captaincy, the press and public were on the players’ case, and then we go and win the first Test in Trinidad by a mile, bowling them out for 51 in the second dig. Just about everyone wanted Brian’s head and they were probably only a game away from getting it.

His response was to make a double century in Jamaica and then a wonderful 153 not out in the fourth-innings run chase in Barbados. I never thought anyone could bat better than he did at Sydney in 1992 when we saw