1975 CWC Superstar? Not quite—but Vanburn Holder did his job

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(Part 17.) Steady stalwart. “We don’t need Andy Roberts, Croft and Garner when we have superstar Vanburn Holder!” In pretending to be the voice of then West Indies Cricket Board of Control president Jeffrey Stollmeyer—at the time of the exodus of most first-choice players to Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket in 1978/79—The Mighty Sparrow targeted …

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