RIP Sir Garfield Sobers

RIP Sir Garfield Sobers

Very sad news as he was one of the greatest players ever and one of the first that I remember seeing play when I was a youngster.
 

RIP Sir Garfield Sobers

filmyfan said:
Those 6's in that over !!

Before all this T20 nonsense !
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Reading up on that, Malcolm Nash (also departed) was a medium pace bowler experimenting as a slow left arm bowler. He went back to medium pace pretty quickly after that.
 

RIP Sir Garfield Sobers

RIP Sir Garfield. I first got into cricket in 1966, when his West Indies were the tourists and he was the undoubted star of a very strong side. He was an all-rounder at bowling alone, let alone batting, fielding and captaincy.
 

RIP Sir Garfield Sobers

I wasn't much into cricket until one of my uncles was visiting from Trinidad in the early 70s. My summer game was tennis even though I was rubbish. Anyway, he made me watch the series WI played against England that year. I knew who he was, of course, as my mum was a big fan, but I wasn't that interested until then. I vividly remember the Third Test when we (WIndies) won by an innings and 226 with Sobers getting 150 n.o. and Trini boy Bernard Julien getting his maiden century. I was hooked after that. He played his last test match in 74, so I never got to see him play in the flesh, which always pained me.

I was fortunate to meet him in the lift at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston when the band I was in was doing a short tour of Jamaica. He was not only an honoured guest but was a pundit, I think, for some TV station or other, at the test series between WI and India. I got his autograph, which I think I still have somewhere, but no selfies, as it was 1989, so no smartphones obvs. One of my all-time heroes. RIP Legend. 💔❤️🏏
 

RIP Sir Garfield Sobers

31st August 1968,Swansea.
Glamorgan vs Nottinghamshire.🏏
Gary Sobers hits 6.6.6.6.6.6 off a Malcolm Nash over.
The first batsmen to achieve the feat.
Part of a great West Indian cricket team in the 1960's.
Thank you for the cricketing memories when I was a lad.
May you rest in peace 🙏
 

RIP Sir Garfield Sobers

Is this a myth or was he an ambidextrous bowler?
 

RIP Sir Garfield Sobers

When working at Heathrow in the 90s I had the immense privilege of meeting this great man. With Ted Dexter, Sir Garfield was my boyhood hero and he couldn't have been nicer. All the time in the world to chat and he tolerated my childish enthusiasm about his achievements brilliantly. His autograph is a very cherished memory of that day. An amazing cricketer and an even nicer gentleman. RIP Sir Garfield Sobers a TRUE sporting giant....
 

RIP Sir Garfield Sobers

Les Beeavinu said:
OK, I think he could bowl medium pace, orthodox off spin and wrist spin.
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He was medium -fast by today's standards and could virtually bowl anything he liked, he was deceptively quick and would often make good batsman look stupid with his variety and skills
 

RIP Sir Garfield Sobers

I always used to go to the tourists' game at Arundel against the Duke of Norfolk's XI (mostly Sussex players) when I was a kid. So I would have seen Sobers play on the 1966 West Indies tour, but the only thing I remember was getting Rohan Kanhai's autograph in the souvenir programme, which my parents later threw away in a house move.
 

RIP Sir Garfield Sobers

One of the great all rounders. His 365 no v Pakistan in 1958 was the highest test score at the time, a record not broken for another 36 years
RIP Sir Garry
 

RIP Sir Garfield Sobers

RIP Sir Garfield Sobers.
What a player he was and what a lovely fella too.

I had the honour of meeting Gary in the mid 90s when our Brewery produced a Bajan Beer.
We had to take samples to an event promoting Barbados as a tourist destination and i had the honour of offering the great man a beer.
He took one maybe two and we talked Cricket.
A Great day that was.
 

RIP Sir Garfield Sobers

Sobers, who was born with an extra finger on each hand — they were removed in boyhood

I never knew this. I wonder what would have happened if they removed different ones....



In old age, he appeared constantly irked by having made little money out of the game by comparison with modern-day performers, none of whom, with the exceptions of Lara, Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne were anything like as talented. Fortunately for him, his rounds of golf, drinks and meals in restaurants were often complimentary, for he was always in demand.

“If I had my life again I would be a professional golfer rather than a cricketer,” Sobers wrote. “When you start ageing and are not performing quite as well as you used to — or, more to the point, as others are used to — the cricket media tear into you and rip you to pieces. In golf it’s all so different. Nobody dares to write off Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman and Arnold Palmer. Everyone is glad to see them.”

Seems a little bitter, just like our Terrible Twins. And who can blame them.
 

RIP Sir Garfield Sobers

Sobers by name but....


The High Commission of Barbados organised the streaming of the funeral in the Long Room, fittingly so, because Lord’s was a special place for Sobers. He averaged 95 from five Tests. In 1966 he scored 163, saving his team from 95 for five by putting on 274 with his cousin David Holford. He rounded it off with 150 in his final Lord’s Test – the last of his 26 Test centuries – in 1973, an innings that was composed through bloodshot eyes and a monumental hangover after a night drinking with an old team-mate in London. No curfews in those days or camera phones to catch out sports stars. Sobers had to retire hurt on 131 because he felt so ill, much to the amusement of his team-mates on the balcony. “The only thing that’ll help me now is a port and brandy mixed,” he told them. He downed it in one and Rohan Kanhai, the captain, ordered another and added: “Make it a big one this time.” Sobers went out again to reach his 150 and West Indies won by an innings.
 
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