Only men of steel could do what West Indies opening batsman Gordon Greenidge did in Antigua exactly 30 years ago. On April 30, 1983, Greenidge scored an impact hundred with the thought of his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Ria fighting for dear life back home in Barbados. With opening partner Desmond Haynes (136), Greenidge (154) put on 296 in response to India’s 457 at the Antigua Recreation Ground at St John’s, the home ground of Viv Richards.

Gordon Greenidge. Pic/Adrian Murrell/Allsport UK