India, April 25 -- Sometimes, just making an honest living can mean a lot, especially when one starts life in utter poverty and hopelessness. Medium pacer Terrance Hinds last year played two T20Is for the West Indies against visiting England. For a player who was born in poverty and violence all around him, coming that far was nothing short of extraordinary.

"Playing cricket took me out of a lot of bad situations, so that is very important to me. I was born and raised in Port of Spain, a place where you don't find many cricketers originating from. Down there is more like a ghetto, so for me to come out from a place like that to play professional cricket and represent the West Indies is a big accomplishment," he told the official website ...