Legendary former West Indies cricketer and ex-Bangladesh national team coach Gordon Greenidge was a special guest at the Dhaka Lit event held at the historic Bangla Academy Stadium in the capital from January 5-8.
After being canceled for three consecutive years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 10th edition of the DLF, the biggest international literary festival in Bangladesh, is finally back and Bangladesh cricket followers, or even general fans of the game, will not want to miss out on the opportunity to meet the Windies great.
A stylish right-handed opening batsman in the Caribbean sides of the halcyon days of the 1970s and 80s, the 71-year-old Bajan etched his name in Bangladesh cricket history when he guided the Bngaldeshs to the 1997 ICC Trophy triumph, and subsequently a place in the ODI World Cup for the first time.
A book titled “Eye on the Ball” by Yusuf Resar Rahman, popularly known as Yusuf Babu, a popular Bangladesh batsman of the seventies and eighties, was launched on Saturday during the fourth and final day of the Dhaka Lit Fest.
The former West Indies opening batsman, who participated in that, commented that cricket is becoming more and more about the batters.
He said in this regard: “We should establish equality between bowlers and batsmen.”
The legendary Sir Gordon Greenidge represented the West Indies in Tests and ODIs for 17 years and is regarded worldwide as one of the greatest and most devastating openers in the history of cricket.