In India almost all sports grounds are named after political leaders. In Hyderabad we have a Lal Bahadur Shastri stadium, GMC Balayogi stadium, Rajiv Gandhi stadium and Kotla Vijay Bhaskar Reddy stadium while across India are stadiums named after Modi, Jaitley, Nehru and minor political leaders. Very few sports stadiums are named after sports persons.

In the West Indies there are no stadiums named after politicians. Some are named after their highly accomplished players. And then there is the famous Sabina Park stadium in Kingston, Jamaica, which is named after a former slave.

Author Shalman Scott, writing in the Jamaica Observer, states that Sabina Park was a slave who murdered her little child because she did not want the child to grow up into slavery like herself. Being a slave sh

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