Adams’ career took him all around the world – he scored a career-high 208 not out against New Zealand in a Test in 1995.

But since retiring from cricket in 2004 he has seen West Indies become a shadow of the side that he played in, and one that dominated the game in the 1970s and 1980s.

They failed to qualify for the past World Cup and are ranked only above Zimbabwe by the ICC at Test level.

“The game has changed, the world has changed and things change,” says Adams on the state of the game in the Caribbean.

“Before me, Hungary was a world football superpower and Hungary isn’t that anymore, but football still continues to excite and people enjoy it and so on, and cricket won’t be any different.

“If you want to be nostalgic you can say ‘yes it’s been a bit sad watching it’, but the excitement of where world cricket has gone since then, that carries far more weight with me watching how the game has transformed itself through T20 cricket.

“Watching international cricket now, even Test cricket, is so much different than Test cricket in my time and I think that’s that’s something to be celebrated.

“Yes, when I sit down with old geezers my age we reminisce a little bit, but for me there are no tears shed.”

The financial demise of the city’s football team, who were relegated to the fourth tier in 2024, has helped rugby become the city’s main sporting attraction.

Stade Chaban-Delmas became UBB’s permanent home in 2011 and the club regularly play in front of near-capacity crowds – making them the best-supported club in Europe.

Consolidation in the top flight was followed by a first Champions Cup appearance in 2015-16, thanks to Pierre Bernard’s late drop-goal against Gloucester in a qualification play-off – a game Connor started.

Back-to-back Champions Cup appearances began to take a toll on Bordeaux’s league form as they struggled to compete on two fronts, finishing 11th, 10th and 10th.

“During that period [2016-2019], we started taking steps backwards. The budget was getting bigger and we were signing bigger names, the culture was not gelling,” added Connor, who played regularly.

“We were going backwards and it was frustrating because I felt like I was in my prime and we were missing opportunities we could have taken.

“Near the end of my career [2020], I felt a bit outdated – like a dinosaur from that crossover Pro D2 team.

“Guys like Cameron Woki and Matthieu Jalibert were starting to come through, and while we used to drink in the dressing room after every game, they were like, ‘No, we need to recover and get ready for the week.’

“Mentally, I knew I was done and it was time to hand over the baton to the new generation of Jalibert and those sort of guys. They took the club where it needed to go.”