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Indian cricket is heading for a showdown over an unofficial Twenty-20 event that has rankled the national board.

When I heard that Sir Garfield Sobers was coming to my nearest county cricket club, Worcestershire, to be guest of honour at a dinner in aid of the Lord's Taverners, I contacted the organiser, the former Worcestershire and England player Neal Radford, and asked whether I might bag an interview with the great man before the event.