AFTER a winter facing the brutal pace of a fired-up West Indies attack and the intensity of an Ashes series in the following summer of 1961, Raman Subba Row must have thought he had dealt with the two toughest assignments cricket had to offer.
How wrong he was because, after going into the administration of the sport, he found himself at the epi-centre of several of the game’s most controversial events.
Surrey-born Subba Row played 15 Tests for England as a gritty left-handed top-order batsman between 1958 and 1961, scoring one century against West indies and two ag...