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Garfield St Aubrun Sobers was born on 28 July 1936 to Shamont and Thelma Sobers of Walcott Avenue, Bay Land, St Michael, Bridgetown, Barbados, [10] [11] [12] and was the fifth of six children. [ 10 ] [ 13 ] At birth he had two extra fingers , one on each hand.
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]
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 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 ...
The West Indies team was captained by Rohan Kanhai, who had succeeded Gary Sobers as captain for the Australian series in the West Indies the previous winter.. The West Indies side had dropped back in form from its peak in the mid-1960s, with the retirement of its great fast bowlers Charlie Griffith and Wes Hall and some of its leading batsmen, such as Conrad Hunte and Basil Butcher.
Gary Sobers – 1333 @ 47.60 Basil Butcher – 1294 @ 44.62 Rohan Kanhai – 1149 @ 41.03 leading bowlers Charlie Griffith – 119 wickets @ 12.83 Gary Sobers – 82 ...