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V.S. Naipaul had a character named 'Hat' in his book, Miguel Street . I had my Uncle 'Jacket' in real life. He was called the 'Jacket Man' because he always wore a coat - even to cut cane or milk the cattle. He loved cricket and lived long enough to see his son (and my cousin) Deonarine play for Trinidad.

Long before Deonarine was born, my uncle used to take me and his eldest son Joe to watch cricket at the Queen's Park Oval in faraway Port-of-Spain, a trip which entailed several hours and buses, a long walk from the bus terminal, as well as lining up for tickets for 'grounds'. I suppose that today's cricket fans would have grounds for considerable disapproval in terms of the quality of the accommodations, but in those days, especially as a five-year-old, I sat on the green, green Queen's Park grass and loved every moment of it. We usually reached long before the players came out for their warm-up drills and while eating our 'doubles' (delicious and peppery curried chick peas between two fried patties) bought especially for breakfast, watched them closely.

The practice nets were just behind where we sat, so we went to the nets to watch the players practise. Apart from the cricket, the major highlight of the day was when Uncle Jacket bought red Solo soft drinks for us to wash down the roti and curry chicken which my Aunt had woken up early to prepare.

I loved the cricket and the atmosphere in the grounds - people of all the different races that make up the rainbow country that is Trinidad, the noise, the smell of food, the sound of leather on willow, and most of all, the talk. "Talk like bush," as we say. As I grew up, I followed the same routine - buy doubles, reach early and watch the warm-up while eating my breakfast.

Bets

During the years, I was around when bets were made, like the one where someone bet that Vivian Richards, then in great form, would not make a hundred. Richards went on to make 123 (I think) and the man won his bet on a technicality. Richards did not make a hundred, he made 123. Bunnie Butler, Frank King, Walcott, Alexander, Collie Smith - I saw them all. Yet, what sticks in my memory was a shot played by Garry Sobers against Peter Philpott, a leg-spinner with a reasonably well-disguised googly. Philpott was doing extremely well in that 1965 tour and, like Amit Mishra in this series, was the scourge of West Indies batsmen.

It was the best of times for him and the worst.

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Die Hard with a Vengeance (also known as Die Hard 3) is a 1995 American action film and the third in the Die Hard film series. It was produced and directed by John McTiernan (who directed the first film), written by Jonathan Hensleigh, and stars Bruce Willis as NYPD Lieutenant John McClane, Samuel L. Jackson as McClane's reluctant partner Zeus Carver, and Jeremy Irons as Colonel Simon Peter Gruber. It was released on May 19, 1995 and followed by Live Free or Die Hard 12 years later.

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