On
the sunny Monday of June 26, 2000, Aminul Islam, the captain of the Bangladesh
side that beat Pakistan in 1999, got a call from Dhaka. It was someone from the
Bangladesh Cricket Board. Aminul was living in Portsmouth in Hampshire that
summer, playing in the Southern Premier League. He was asked to drive to Lord's
to be present for the press conference that would reveal Bangladesh as the
newest ICC Full Member and Test team. The cable TV boom had already happened in
south Asia, and one of the stations back home heard Aminul was going to be at
the press conference. They arranged a camera and got him to report it for them.
