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The Right Excellent Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, NH, AO, OCC (born 28 July 1936), also known as Sir Gary or Sir Garry Sobers, is a former Barbadian cricketer who played for the West Indies between 1954 and 1974.
Sobers held the record for the second highest number of centuries in Test cricket at the time of his retirement. [1]Sir Garfield Sobers (also known as Gary or Garry Sobers) is a former international cricketer who represented the West Indies cricket team between 1954 and 1974.
A World XI cricket team, which was a multi-national captained by Gary Sobers, toured Australia in the 1971–72 season.It replaced the proposed Test tour by South Africa which the Australian Cricket Board had cancelled in 1971. [1]
Sir Garfield Sobers in 2012. Garfield Sobers, captain of the West Indies cricket team and one of the most prominent cricketers in the world, outraged many in the Caribbean in September 1970 when he took part in a friendly double-wicket tournament at Salisbury Sports Club in Rhodesia (renamed Zimbabwe in 1980), a country in southern Africa that was unrecognised internationally because of its ...
Another scheduled South African tour, this time to Australia, was cancelled in 1971 and the Rest of the World team was recreated, again under the captaincy of Gary Sobers. Besides Sobers, the squad included six other 1970 team members: Farokh Engineer, Intikhab Alam, Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd and the Pollock brothers.
Of the nine Barbadians that have held the West Indies captaincy, Garry Sobers has led the side the most times in Tests with 39 appearances. [3] Sobers holds the record for the most Test runs by a Barbadian for the West Indies, his tally of 8,032 runs is the fourth highest overall for the West Indies. [4]
Sir Garfield St Aubrun "Garry" Sobers AO OCC (born in Barbados; 28 July 1936), knighted in 1975 for services to cricket. Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott KA GCM OBE (born in Barbados; 1926–2006), created a Knight of St. Andrew of the Order of Barbados in 1993 for services to cricket.
Mahendru was briefly engaged to cricket player Gary Sobers. [4] Mahendru had a long relationship with actor Rajesh Khanna from 1966 to 1972. Khanna's mother had wanted Khanna to marry soon, since he had turned 27 and had become hugely popular by 1969, but when Khanna proposed Anju in 1971 she said she wanted to postpone her marriage as she ...