Sobers had spent few weeks coaching the West Indies side and tried to offer the batsmen pieces of advice.
A look at West Indies tours to India from 1948 to 1983.
Garry Sobers bowled outswing, inswing, and finger-spin. He also bowled wrist-spin...
The guise of decoding the cause of failure of the English batsmen, the article just quotes a few known facts, ignores some very relevant ones, and claims that the cause-effect relationship is irrevocably established. This is a major problem with analysis carried out by time-constrained journalists.
Steven Smith completed 6,000 runs in the format during the fifth Ashes Test.
Virat Kohli is the fourth to do this, after Sunil Gavaskar, Vinod Kambli, and Gautam Gambhir.
Most XIs, real or fantasy, consist mostly of specialist batsmen and bowlers with one or two all-rounders and a wicketkeeper-batsman if they are available.
This is an XI based on the men who batted *and* bowled left-handed and had played Test cricket.
Composing one from the cricketers with their last names starting with S, CricketCountry Historian Arunabha Sengupta is spoilt for choice from a simply superb squad.
Garry Sobers and Bobby Simpson are the only ones to have done this before Nair.