West Indies cricketing great Sir Garry Sobers has died
Cricket West Indies said the former captain set records with 365 not out and six sixes in one over.
- West Indies Cricket announced on Friday that Sir Garfield Sobers, the legendary Barbados-born all-rounder, has died aged 89.
- In 1958, a 21-year-old Sobers scored an unbeaten 365 against Pakistan, a world-record Test innings that stood for 36 years, launching a career yielding more than 28,000 runs.
- Setting records in 1968, Sobers became the first player to hit six sixes in a first-class over while playing for English County Nottinghamshire, earning recognition from the Wisden Almanack as a leading cricketer.
- Playing in apartheid Rhodesia in 1970 generated international backlash and calls for his removal as West Indies captain; Sobers later wrote to the West Indies Cricket Board expressing regret.
- Queen Elizabeth II knighted him in 1975 in Bridgetown, Barbados, before 50,000 spectators; later named one of the 10 official National Heroes of Barbados, he was praised by Australian legend Don Bradman as the "greatest all-round cricketer I ever saw.
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Cricket in the 20th century was littered with great players, but by universal consent two stand head and shoulders above the rest – Australian batsman Donald Bradman and West Indian all-rounder Garry Sobers, who has died aged 89. “A great innings has come to an end. In our hearts, now and forever, Sir Garfield Sobers,” […]
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