Stephen Finn

You'd say, please, will you sign this?

And you'd just get an email back about three minutes later saying, no, you can't.

And you'd never...

rubbed shoulders with those people so when you then came up against them one you didn't know that much about um their game from having chatted to them as you would do in the IPL um and the experience of learning off them Joss Butler in particular um speaks loads about going to the IPL and learning so much about playing the game that's made him a better player so it can only have been a good thing but certainly then it was unusual to be rubbing shoulders in such close proximity to those great players yeah and uh

Well, they had everything that you would want for a T20 team.

The wrist spin in Badri, mystery spin in Narayan, power, Gale, Bravo, Samuels, Pollard.

It was a team that would survive in world tournaments now, which is not the case for most of those teams that were playing then.

So very much ahead of their time.

And what Darren and Sammy...

did and what he's been able to do across his life as a West Indian captain and now coach administrator is bring those guys together to feel as though that sense of togetherness and collectiveness moving towards something is something that you really felt in that tournament and that was kind of encapsulated with the way that

You'd walk through the hotel lobby and there was about 20 of them dancing to Gangnam Style as you walked in.

Talking about paraphernalia.

So when you, like we do for these tournaments, actually, you get a little backpack when you go into your room and you check in because it's an ICC event.

Everything's controlled by the ICC.

So you go in and you've got a backpack with Sri Lanka 2012.

And in it, you've got a boot bag, a towel, a key ring, a mug for the players.

Yeah, I've still got my towel at home.

Sri Lanka 2012.

Yeah, probably needs to be thrown away 14 years.

No, not a bit of it.