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Garry Sobers

Full Name
Garfield St Aubrun Sobers
Born
28-07-1936 Chelsea Road, Bay Land, St Michael, Barbados
Current Age
84 years old
Major Teams
West Indies
Batting Style
Left-hand bat
Bowling Style
Left-arm fast-medium, Slow left-arm, Chinaman
Garry Sobers

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    Infographic: Andy Sandham and other players who scored the first triple hundred for their country

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    Garry Sobers converts his maiden Test ton into record for highest individual Test score

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    Clive Rice's First-Class stats are as good or better than Imran Khan, Richard Hadlee, Ian Botham and Kapil Dev

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    Virender Sehwag congratulates Sachin Tendulkar on receiving the Order of Australia

Garry Sobers Biography

He was a freak of nature, the likes of whom the world has never been seen before or since. 
 
Ray Robinson called him “evolution’s ultimate specimen of cricketers.” CLR James, known for his emancipation-linked hyperboles, went further, marking him “the living embodiment of centuries of tortured history… a West Indian cricketer, not merely a cricketer from the West Indies.”
 
Superlatives tripped liberally from tongues and pen of even the most prosaic and conservative chroniclers of the game, especially during the two decades when Garry Sobers reigned supreme. His giant shadow stretched across every department of the game, his mastery lending sparkle to every specialisation ever eked out of cricket — bar wicket-keeping, perhaps because he was never asked to constrain his versatility in big gloves.
 
As a batsman he was undoubtedly the best in the world in his times, certainly the most sublime attacking stroke-player, and till this day stands as one of the most supreme wielders of the willow across the entire history of the game. As a bowler, there have been many better, but none as versatile. He could take the new ball, run in quick and make it dart about. When the ball was older, he could spin it in time honoured orthodox manner. Or he could resort to turning it from the back of his hand, sharply and in both ways. And as a fielder, he could pouch half-chances in the slip, and at leg-slip grab even those which did not register as any fraction of a chance at all. If, for the sake of variety he was placed in the covers, he could chase like a greyhound and pick up and throw in one action, searing, flat and accurate. He was undoubtedly the greatest all-round fielder of the era, perhaps of all-time.
 
The king that he was on the field, he was a reluctant leader. Sobers the night-owl was never one for discipline or curfew, and he was not going to impose it on his team. Moreover he had no time for inter-island politics — so abundant in West Indies cricket. He could spend the night in a bar and walk out to score Test hundreds, but this was not the ideal approach for leadership. He was a canny captain, but his sometimes curious attitude and decisions led to criticism, and at least once an infamous defeat.
 
When he ended his career, he was the highest run-getter in Test cricket, with the highest individual score in an innings. From the 365 not out which was his first ever Test century to the 254 against Rest of The World which left Dennis Lillee gaping with admiration, interspersed with the six sixes in an over off Maloclm Nash, he was a batsman who comes once in several life times. However, he also finished as the second-highest wicket taker for West Indies and third in the world on the table of catches held by non-wicketkeepers. 
 
Arunabha Sengupta

Garry Sobers Batting & Fielding Averages

Career M In R NO HS Avg BF SR 100s 50s 4s 6s Ct St
Test 93 160 8032 21 365* 57.78 4862 165.1 26 30 741 -- 109 0
ODIs 1 1 0 0 0 0.000 6 0.000 0 0 0 0 1 0
T20s 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
World Cup 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Garry Sobers Bowling Averages

Career M B R W Avg EC SR 5WI 10WM BBI BBM
Test 93 20597 7999 235 34.03 2.330 87. 6 0 6/73 8/80
ODIs 1 63 31 1 31.00 2.952 63.00 0 0 1/3 1/31
T20s 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
World Cup 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 1/31

Garry Sobers Career statistics

Test Debut

West Indies v England at Sabina Park, Kingston, March 30, 1954

Last Test

West Indies v England at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, March 30, 1974

ODI Debut

England v West Indies at Headingley, Leeds, September 5, 1973

Last ODI

England v West Indies at Headingley, Leeds, September 5, 1973

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Jason Holder emulates Sir Gary Sobers to top ICC allrounders’ list

Holder leapfrogged Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan and India's Ravindra Jadeja to grab the number one spot for the first time in his career.

Shai Hope is class: Sir Garfield Sobers

Sobers had spent few weeks coaching the West Indies side and tried to offer the batsmen pieces of advice.

Steven Smith equals Garry Sobers’ record; only behind Don Bradman

Steven Smith completed 6,000 runs in the format during the fifth Ashes Test.

Karun Nair scores historic triple-hundred, joins Garry Sobers, Bobby Simpson

Garry Sobers and Bobby Simpson are the only ones to have done this before Nair.

Sehwag, Tendulkar, Gavaskar to play under Imran Khan’s captaincy in Rameez Raja’s All-Time XI

Rameez can be seen naming his XI along with the basis to select the players in the recently released video as a part of the series ...

Garry Sobers rates 163 not out at Lord’s vs England his best

During the first game between Rest of the World and England in 1970 at Lord’s, Sobers claimed 6 for 21 and smacked 183.

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