Ramnaresh Sarwan doubtless remembers the chill of Headingley all too well.

It was just two years ago that this week's venue for the first of three NatWest Series one-day internationals between England and West Indies hosted a contender for one of the coldest Test matches of all time.

The tourists had done enough to draw the first Test at Lord's under Sarwan's captaincy - despite five hundreds to nil in the hosts' favour at HQ.
They were daring to dream therefore that they might just be able to confound all expectations of a mismatch from pundits who easily recalled the 4-0 drubbing handed out by England in July and August 2004.

A bit of late May sunshine would not go amiss for them in Leeds.

But instead, temperatures plummeted to something close to a February average - and it was not just the Windies but England too who could not lay their hands on enough long-sleeved jumpers to keep the wind-chill at bay.

The hapless Windies suffered en masse - but no one quite like Sarwan.

After England won the toss and began to pile up 520 for seven declared, on the back of a home-ground century for returning captain Michael Vaughan and a double-hundred from Pietersen, it became clear runs from the likes of Sarwan would be crucial if they were to escape with another draw.

Even before the Test started the West Indies were minus their most reliable source of resistance, the injured Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

Much worse was to come, though, as Sarwan chased back to try to intercept a Paul Collingwood straight drive late on a freezing first day and instead clattered into the boundary at the Football Ground end.

He emerged clutching his shoulder, within minutes was being led from the ground with his arm in a sling on the way to a waiting ambulance - and by the end of the month, it was confirmed he would fly back to Guyana and miss the remainder of a tour containing two more Tests, two Twenty20s and three NatWest Series one-day internationals.
Daren Ganga took over the Test captaincy in his absence, to little avail.

Despite a third-day washout, England stormed to victory by an innings and 283 runs at Headingley, then by 60 runs at Old Trafford and finally seven wickets at Riverside.

Twenty20 honours even and a comeback victory in the one-dayers followed, during which Chris Gayle belied his laid-back persona to impress Sarwan and others with his "outstanding" captaincy of the limited-overs team.

Scroll on two years, and a back-to-health and in-form Sarwan has the chance to help Gayle better England again in this country, in another three-match ODI series.

Yet the Headingley 2007 experience is still one Sarwan remembers painfully.

Despite early indications that his injury was healing quickly, it was 10 months before he was back in the Test fold and somewhere near his elegant best as a top-order batsman in the highest bracket.

Gayle publicly and regularly acknowledged how badly his former captain's batting had been missed, and 28-year-old Sarwan has most recently confirmed his class against England with a run-laden Caribbean Test series won 1-0 by the hosts and featuring two hundreds and a double-hundred from him.

For England, it meant revenge was on the menu in the return two-Test series in this country.
For Sarwan, a degree of "closure" at Headingley is still required.