Collie Smith: The greatest what-if in West Indies cricket history was born on this day in 1933

There are cricketers who leave records behind and cricketers who leave questions. Collie Smith, born on this day in 1933 in Kingston, Jamaica, left both, and the questions have never stopped being asked, because nobody will ever know the answer to them. He was 26 when he died. Twenty-six, with 26 Test matches behind him, a century on debut, a five-for in Delhi, a 306 not out in the Lancashire League, and a reputation that had begun to suggest he might one day stand alongside the very greatest We…