While the sporting globe is in World Cup mode — be it with the women’s T20 cricket or the men’s football extravaganza — a World Cup hero turns 75 today. His name: Collis Llewellyn King. His claim to ODI cricket fame: A   66-ball 86 for West Indies in the 1979 World Cup final against England at Lord’s (yes, the same venue now in the throes of pitch infamy).

King, who was also part of Clive Lloyd’s 1975 World Cup-winning squad without getting a game, walked in to bat on June 23, 1979, with West Indies shaky at 99-4. At the other end was Viv Richards, who ended up making his one and only World Cup final century. But pundits believed that it was King’s innings (77 minutes, 10x4, 3x6) that stuck deeper in memory and admiration.