Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers , AO, OCC (born July 28, 1936), also known as Gary or Garry Sobers , is a former cricketer who playing for the West Indies between 1954 and 1974, and was widely regarded as the best cricket player.
Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, Sobers made his first class debut for the Barbados cricket team at the age of 16 in 1953, and debuted his test for the West Indies the following year. Originally playing primarily as a bowler, he was soon promoted to a batting order. Against Pakistan in 1958, Sobers scored his maiden Test century, advancing to 365 not out and setting a new record for the highest individual score in one half. His notes were not solved until Brian Lara scored 375 in 1994. Sobers was made captain of the West Indies in 1965, a role he will hold until 1972. He will also captain the rest of World XI during their 1970 tour of England.
Overall, Sobers played 93 Tests for the West Indies, scored 8032 runs on an average of 57.78, and took 235 wickets with an average of 34.03. He has the fourth highest batting average on Test cricket in the list of cricketers with more than 5,000 times. In 383 first-class games, he scored over 28,000 matches and took over 1000 wickets, having spent time with South Australia and Nottinghamshire near the end of his career. Sobers was awarded the title of nobility by Queen Elizabeth II in 1975 for his services to cricket. He became a dual Barbadian-Australian citizen through marriage in 1980. By the act of Parliament in 1998, Sobers was named as one of the ten National Heroes of Barbados.
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1936-1954: Awal tahun
Garfield St Aubrun Sobers was born on July 28, 1936 to Shamont and Thelma Sobers from Walcott Avenue, Bay Land, St. Michael, Bridgetown, Barbados, and is the fifth of six children. At birth she has two additional fingers, one in each hand, which she releases herself during childhood, "with the help of a catgut and a sharp knife." Sobers was only five when his father died at sea in January 1942, after his ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat ship.
From an early age, Sobers demonstrates his talent and ability to play with great skills almost any sport involving the ball, especially cricket, soccer, and basketball. She and her talented sister, Gerald, help their Bay Street Boys' School team to win the inter-school championship of Cricket Primary School for three consecutive years. When she was 13 years old, she was recruited to play for two cricket teams. This is Kent St. Philip's club in the Barbados Cricket League (BCL) and Wanderers Club, located in Bay Land, at the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA). Garnet Ashby, captain of Kent St Philip, told him that this was his chance to play cricket with "big boys".
Sobers gained useful experience by playing bowling to Batsman Wanderers, including West Indies Test player Denis Atkinson, practicing in the net and soon developing his superb skills as a left arm bowler. More importantly for his career, he was observed by Inspector Wilfred Farmer, captain of the Police team in the First Division of BCL. The farmer offered Sobers a chance to play for the Police in the 1951-52 season while he was still only 15. In the 1952-53 season, Sobers was invited to a Barbados court for a touring tour of the colony against the Indian tour team at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown. He was originally chosen as the 12th man but later made his own team when Frank King was forced to retreat. Therefore he made his first class debut on January 31, 1953, aged only 16. Batting at number nine, he scored 7 not out in the only round but made a direct impression as a bowler, taking 4/50 and 3/92.
A full year passed before Sobers, now 17, made a first-class appearance, returning to play against the tour team. He fought in number five against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), scored 46 and 27; and picked up two wickets in the match. He has shown enough talent in these two matches to be selected for the West Indies and his third class appearance is his Test debut.
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International cricket career
1954-1957: Career Initial Test
Sobers has grown rapidly and made his Test debut in March 1954, age 17, against England at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica for the Fifth and Last Test, after Alf Valentine fell ill. Sobers was selected as a bowler, though only a mediocre appearance against England for Barbados. He made a good impression by taking 4/75 in the first half of England, including the wicket in his opening. Sobers also scored 14 not out and 26 batting at number nine; However, England won the game with nine wicket.
Australia toured the West Indies in 1954-55, and the all-time Keith Miller thought that Sobers would be a better batsman than a bowler despite batting in low order. Sobers was not selected for the First Test, which the West Indies lost by nine wickets. However, he regains his place for the Second Test in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The match was a high draw, with Sobers scoring 47 and eight not coming out. He was barely used with the ball, bowling three overs to ten runs, as Australia collected the first inning total of more than 600. Sobers were given a further chance in the next Test in Georgetown, Guyana (British Guana at the time) in South America. Despite scoring only 12 and 11 with a bat, he took three wickets in the first half of the Australians. Nonetheless, Australia won with eight wicket. West Indian captain and batsman opener Jeff Stollmeyer twisted his ankle after stepping on the ball ahead of Fourth Test in Barbados, "sparking a big debate about who should be open." Finally, Sobers was chosen to open the round after Australia collected a total of more than 600. Sobers had the suspicion that he might be asked to do the job. "I can not see them sending anyone else - I'm a bowler with little ability as a batsman and they want someone to help eliminate the luster and protect the three W." Sobers struck three of his first deliveries to the limit, all from Miller's bowling. In the second fast-bowler match, Sobers hit him for three more crawls. He was eventually fired for 43 of the first-wart 52 partnership with JK Holt. The match was drawn, and Sobers took one wicket in the inning only Australia, before scoring 11 in the second round of the West Indies. The hosts were again beaten at the Fifth and Final Test in Jamaica. Sobers came up with a bat, however, scored 35 not out and 64.
Sobers went on his first overseas tour in the early months of 1956 when he was 19 years old, he was part of a tour of West India in New Zealand. The series is not personally successful for Sobers, who are fighting on foreign batting wickets. West Indian pitches have little or no grass to talk about, while in New Zealand the field is green. "I saw one and asked myself how can I bat it? How can I run? I get out before I even walk into the wrinkles," Sobers wrote later. Played in all four Tests, he numbered 81 runs and two wickets. As a batsman, Sobers takes time to grow at the Test level and, in nine Tests as a teenager, he scores only a half century, and averages 29.33 with bats.
He was sent home from New Zealand early to play an unofficial Test match against an English team that included a dreaded fast-bowler Frank Tyson. After struggling to overcome Tyson's pace, Sobers scored a half-century, raising hopes that he would be selected for an upcoming tour of England, something he considered impossible after he was less in shape. In the first test match to help pick a team for the upcoming tour, Sobers scored a century in Trinidad. The match also sees Sobers getting his first glance at West Indian cricket politics. Wes Hall and Frank Mason compete for a spot at the tour party, and Sobers and Everton Weekes decide they will "take over Mason and drop him off the line to try and get his fellow Bajan (compatriot) Wes in the team." The couple attacked Mason , while they defended Hall with a tactic that paid off with the chosen Hall, although Sobers believes Mason is a better bowler at the time.
Sobers toured the UK for their summer in 1957. He played his first match against Jim Swanton XI in April, and was shocked at how cold his condition often caused him to wear two or three jumpers. His appearance with bats in all five Test series is classified as mediocre, scored 320 runs at 32, with three and a half centuries. In front of the bowling, Sobers struggled, picking up five wickets at 71. It was in the final Test at The Oval that Sobers received criticism with a challenging batting amid disappointing team performance. Field conditions are subject to criticism and are described by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack as a "strange sight". After England scored 412, the West Indies were easily dismissed for 89 and 86 by Surrey spinner Jim Laker and Tony Lock, who played at home. Batting at number 3, Sobers made 39 and 42, while none of his colleagues graduated 30 in one of the innings. In the tour summary, Wisden said: "(from newcomers) Collie Smith, Sobers, Rohan Kanhai and Roy Gilchrist are very impressive"; adding that "for Sobers, a high-lefty adventurer, falling on the difference in achieving the highest score of the tour: 219 is not against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.Sobers is undoubtedly an excellent stroke player who has to go a long way."
1958-1964: 365 did not exit
At this stage of his career, Sobers has disappointed his admirers by failing to turn a good start into a high score. He has achieved double figures in 18 of the 22 Test rounds, although the highest score is still only 66. But, within three years after the 1957 tour, he fulfilled his promise. In the next 24 Test, he scored 2,250 runs on a very high average of 93.75. In 1958, he scored his first century Test against Pakistan in Kingston and expanded it into an undefeated 365, breaking the world record. The 364 test score set by Len Hutton England in 1938. Sobers was beaten for 614 minutes and scored 38 points four but, amazingly in such a large number, there were no six numbers. At 21 years and 216 days, he is the youngest player who broke the individual score record in the Test, and remains the youngest triple officer. Sir Garfield Sobers set a world record for the highest test (365 *) and became the first batsman in trial history to convert his first test ton to three tonnes. He made 824 runs with three centuries in five Tests against Pakistan, and followed this with 557 runs and three centuries more on a tour of the West Indies of India in 1958-59. Sobers was traumatized after the death of Collie Smith in September 1959, but he continued to play cricket successfully. In the home Test series against England in 1959-60, he scored three centuries in five games, with a total of 709 matches.
Mostly inspired by the new West Indies captain Frank Worrell, who is a close friend, Sobers has a remarkable 1960-61 series in Australia. He scored the 132rd goal on the first day of the First Test at Brisbane Cricket Field, the match that produced the first Tied Test. Wisden affirms that "some observers regard it as the best hundred they have ever seen". Sobers scored 430 runs in the series, which won Australia 2-1, with two centuries; his field is amazing and he takes 12 catches. He felt he had "had a good series, started badly but then came" and a very positive result for him was receiving an invitation from Don Bradman to play for South Australia in 1961-1962.
Sobers took 15 wickets in the 1960-61 series, including the best analysis of 5/120, averaging 39.20, and his bowling allowed Worrell to play an additional batsman in the last three Tests, thus using Sobers for the first time as a designated versatile player, a role in which he became the dominant player in the cricket world over the next decade, who was awarded Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World title (retrospectively) eight times in 13 years. Sobers has never been a prolific goalkeeper in the Test crickets, and on average three goals per game in this series symbolizes his entire career. Overall, he took 235 wickets in his 93 Tests with an average of 34.03 and was more effective when operating as a speed control. His best performance was 6/73 and, although he hit five wickets in six rounds, he never took ten games.
His success continued in the next two series at home to India from 1961 to 1962 and went to England in 1963. He was elected Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1964, and subsequently replaced Worrell, who had retired, as West Indies captain for 1964 -65 home series against Australia. 1965-1974: _West_Indies_captaincy "> 1965-1974: West Indies captain
Sober enjoyed immediate success as West Indies captain when his team defeated Australia with 179 runs in the First Test at Taman Sabina. West Indies then won the 2-1 series and claimed the new Frank Worrell Trophy. This is the first time the West Indies beat Australia in a series of Tests.
He enjoyed spectacular success in England in 1966 and is widely recognized as "King Cricket". In five tests he scored 722 runs on an average of 103.14 with three centuries, and had 20 wickets in 27.25, as well as taking 10 catches. West Indies won 3-1 series, with one game drawn. His status was celebrated at that time by the Trinidadian calipso artist Mighty Sparrow, with his song "Sir Garfield Sobers".
In 1966-67, Sobers became captain of the West Indies team to India in 1966-1967 and they won the 2-0 draw with one drawn game.
He lost the series for the first time in 1967-68 when the West Indies were surprisingly beaten at home by England. Four games were drawn and England won the Fourth Test at Oval Queen Park following Sobers' controversial declaration that allowed England to score 215-3 to win just four wins.
In 1968-69, Sobers became captain of the Western Indian cricket team in Australia in 1968-1969 but they lost to the 3-1 series and then the series three tests in New Zealand 1-1.
In 1969, the West Indies lost 2-0 in England with one game drawn.
Sobers became captain of the West Indies for the five home Tests versus India in 1970-1971. India won the 1-0 draw with four draws. A year later, Sobers led the West Indies in five home tests against New Zealand and their fifth withdrawal.
Sobers succeeded as West Indies captain by Rohan Kanhai for the 1972-73 home series against Australia. Sobers did not play in the series but returned to play under Kanhai in England in 1973. He played his final Test in March 1974 at Queen's Park Oval against England.
Rest of World XI
When South Africa was banned from international cricket because of the country's apartheid policy, the two tour teams were favorable to Britain in 1970 and to Australia in 1971-72 were canceled. The cricket authorities responded by forming the remaining World teams to play an unofficial Test series as a substitute and these teams included some of South Africa's leading players. Sobers is invited to be captain in the rest of the world in both series.
In 1970, as captain of the rest of the XI world against England, he took 6/21 on the opening day of the First (Unofficial) Test at Lord's with the speed of bowling, the ball swinging and flying at high speed. He then scored "superb" 183 and helped bowl out England in the second half using his left wrist wrist. In the Fourth Test at Headingley, Sobers scored 114 and 59 when his side were won by two wicket. After the World Time series, he angered many people in the West Indies by playing in a friendly double-goal tournament in Rhodesia in September 1970.
In January 1972, in the Third (Unofficial) Tests between Australia and the Rest of World XI in Melbourne's Cricket Square, Sobers played the 254 round described by Don Bradman as "probably the biggest batting exhibition ever in Australia." He reached his century in 129 balls and after a day of rest, reached 254 in 326 balls. It was "one of the most amazing rounds ever seen in Melbourne Cricket Square" and "a great cricket great show" lasted 376 minutes and included two sixes and 33 crawling.
Cricket League in England
Sobers spent several seasons in English league cricket. After finishing his first tour of England with the West Indies in 1957, he followed the advice of his mentor, Frank Worrell, and became a professional at Radcliffe Cricket Club in the Central Lancashire League, staying for five seasons from 1958 to 1962. This experience enabled him to hone his skills in various conditions and Sobers said that playing in the league continued his cricket education. He enjoys great success at Radcliffe. In 1961, he achieved a rare "double" by scoring 1008 games and taking 144 wickets, his instrumental performances in Radcliffe winning the league championship title and his additional Wood Cup competition.
While he was engaged to Radcliffe, Sobers underwent an emotional trauma after a road accident in September 1959 at the A34 near Stoke-on-Trent which resulted in the death of Collie Smith. Sobers was driving in which Smith and another West Indian Test player Tom Dewdney was a passenger. Smith's back was damaged by a collision and he died three days later. Sobers can not remember much about the accident and was fined 10 pounds for driving without care and attention. She "starts drinking more" and there are fears, expressed by herself and others, that the experience may have affected her cricket career. He overcame the trauma by deciding that he would let his country fall if he "disappeared into a mist of alcohol mist" and he decided to play not only for Garfield Sobers but for Collie Smith as well, thus placing himself the task of playing for two men. He recovered well and, after a superb Test home series against England in 1959-60, he returned to Radcliffe where he continued as a professional club for the next three seasons.
Sobers provides insight into the professional life of the club in his autobiography. He was paid £ 500 per season by Radcliffe. That is a reasonable wage but it depends on matchday collections to add to it and good performance will improve the collection. He sometimes receives as much as £ 50 in collections and "it represents a big bonus". Radcliffe does not place limits on him and, when they do not have games, he can play as a guest professional in other leagues throughout Lancashire and Yorkshire. He really likes to play in Yorkshire when he can because they will pay him £ 25 per appearance with the above collection if he does well.
After traveling around England with the West Indies in 1963, he moved to North Staffordshire and the South Cheshire League in 1964 to play for the Norton Cricket Club, which won the league title. Sobers made 549 runs in 18 innings at 49.90, finishing second in the league on average behind only his amateur brother Gerald, also playing for Norton, which averages 50.12. Gary Sobers was even better with the ball, his 97th goal in the league's 8.38 league lead. 1965 saw a repetitive performance with Norton again winning the league and, although Sobers only averaged 25.38 with the bat, he again topped the average bowling league with 76 wickets at 8.03. Norton lost the league title in 1966, while Sobers toured to England with the West Indies but got it back in 1967 when he returned. He was fourth in the 1967 league batting average with 41.83 and third in bowling with 95 wickets at 9.37 (two bowlers with better average just picked up 22 and 24 wickets).
Sheffield Shield with South Australia
In the 1961-62 season of Australia following the 1960-61 West Indies tour, Sobers and his Western Indian colleagues Wes Hall and Rohan Kanhai returned to Australia to take part in the Sheffield Shield. Sobers played for South Australia and had a huge impact on the audience, causing an 89% increase with gate admissions rising "two and a half times". He occupied both batting and bowling averages in South Australia, his best performance was against New South Wales champions in the Adelaide Oval when he scored 251 and took 3/51 and 6/72.
He was even more prominent in 1963-1964 when, in large part due to his efforts, South Australia won the Sheffield Shield. Sobers is the leading runscorer of the season with 973 at 74.84 and a leading goalkeeper with 47 at 28.27.
Sobers spent three seasons with South Australia and two of them reached a rare multiplier of 1000 runs and 50 wickets.
Shell Shield with Barbados
Sobers played intermittently for Barbados throughout his first-class career. He made his first appearance in the inaugural season of the new Shell Shield competition in February 1966. His last appearance for Barbados was in the 1973-74 Shell Shield match against Jamaica, at the Kensington Oval.
County Championships with Nottinghamshire
At the end of the 1967 England cricket season, it was agreed that any regional club could soon sign a non-English player for the 1968 season. The seven clubs approached Sobers and, on 14 December 1967, Nottinghamshire announced that he had signed a contract for them and had been appointed as club captain. Sobers stated that, although he enjoyed his time in the cricket league, he has a definite preference for first-class matches and he is looking forward to restoring Nottinghamshire's fate. Although the details were kept secret, Wisden 1968 speculated that his contract would run for three years and be worth  £ 7000 a year (very high income at the time), including apartments and cars.
Six six digits above
On 31 August 1968, Sobers became the first batsman to ever hit six sixes in one over six consecutive balls in first-class cricket. This achievement consists of five clean shots for six and one six in which the ball is caught but carried over the limit by Roger Davis. Sobers played Nottinghamshire captain against Glamorgan at St. Helen at Swansea; the poor bowler is Malcolm Nash. This number of 36 runs in more than a record-breaking 57-year-old from 34 runs, hosted by Ted Alletson. The ball was collected from a park by 11-year-old Richard Lewis; he then gave the ball to Sobers. In 1984-1985, Indian batsman Ravi Shastri equaled the record by scoring six points six while playing for Bombay versus Baroda.
Style and techniques
An incredible figure, Sobers left-handed as a batsman and bowler. Its usefulness allows it to hulk all types of bowling left arms from spin to fast-medium. As a fielder he is usually placed close to the goal but he is also an extremely well-off player.
Richie Benaud described Sobers as "the greatest cricket player the world has ever seen". Sobers, Benaud writes, is "a brilliant batsman, a great fielder, especially close to the goal, and a superbly skilled bowling player, whether playing bowling with a new ball, giving an orthodox left-arm round or an over-the- wrist ".
Fred Trueman enjoys great competition with Sobers and then describes it as a "noble left batsman" which is "one of the greatest cricket players ever to grace the game, certainly the greatest all-rounder". Trueman goes on to say that Sobers as a batsman "has a great cricket brain and thought process very quickly".
C. L. R. James, when describing the batsmanship of Wilton St Hill, commented on St Hill's ability to judge the ball at the start of his flight and quickly decided which blows to play. In James's view, only Don Bradman and Sobers are comparable to St Hill because it has the ability to "see" the ball. Wisden 1969 describes Sobers's "lightning bolt" when he gets a position for his attack. Commenting on Sobers' six sides on top against his side in 1968, Glamorgan captain Tony Lewis said: "It does not really hit power, but is scientifically hit with every movement that works in harmony."
As a bowler, Sobers began as an orthodox left-foot spinner (SLA) and later developed the ability to unify left wrists or chinaman and googlies. Sobers can also operate as a seamer, sometimes using medium speed, but he is much more effective when he plays fast. With the new ball, he can make the delivery curve late in flight at high speed; the action becomes loose, the spike followed by the delivery of "whiplash".
Although he was mostly placed close to the goal, Sobers was an outstanding player who was seen on one occasion, as he lowered the ball across the border, to "bend his hand back almost parallel to his arm before flipping the ball full of seventy yards into the wicketkeeper".
After his success as captain of the West Indies on the 1966 UK tour, the 1967 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack states that for Sobers "(The 1966 Tests) is a victory after victory with bats and balls, as well as on the field as a master tactician and a fantastic catcher close to the bat ". Sobers's exploits in 1966 earned him the nickname of the "Cricket King" given by the media, which soon became the title of his book.
Personal life
Sobers got engaged to Indian actress Anju Mahendru after she met him on a 1966-1967 tour of India. She married Prue Kirby, an Australian, in September 1969. They had two sons, Matthew and Daniel, and an adopted daughter, Genevieve. The marriage ended in a divorce in 1990 after the couple broke up in 1984; However, Sobers gained dual citizenship through marriage in 1980.
He said that he is a multi-sport family who are all good at soccer, basketball, table tennis and tennis. His favorite sport is golf and he has become an enthusiastic gambler. She is the author of children's novels about cricket, Bonaventure and Flashing Blade, where computer analysis helps the university cricket team become invincible.
Awards and inheritance
In 1975, New Year, Queen Elizabeth II created the Sobers a Knight Bachelor for her services to cricket. The award was made in the British Diplomatic and Overseas section of the list, not on the Barbados Government's nomination, which has stopped putting forward recommendations for the UK award. This caused the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office to feel uncomfortable, as shown by a paper released by The National Archives in 2005. However, since Barbados has not yet introduced its own system of honor, the Barbados Prime Minister is pleased that an honor will come. to Sobers.
The award was originally intended to be made in the Queen's 1975 Anniversary, but due to a royal visit to Barbados planned for February 1975, it was moved forward to the New Year listing so that Sobers could be bestowed by the Queen in person during the visit. The very brief turnaround between the decision to make the award and its announcement meant that the Governor-General of Barbados was not informed of the award before the public announcement, which caused some pain between London and Bridgetown.
He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1975 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews while attending a reception at the Barbados High Commission in London to celebrate his latest knight.
Sobers was made Barbados National Hero by the Barbados Cabinet in 1998 and was thus honored with the honor of "The Right Excellent". He was one of only ten people who received this honor and the only surviving recipient.
Sobers trains internationally, has a one-time assignment with Sri Lanka. In 2003 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia, where he has played many first-class games for South Australia.
Cricket award
Among the awards Sobers won during his playing career were:
- Cricket Cricket Western India of the Year: 1958-59
- Wisden Cricketer of the Year: 1964
- The Cricket Society Wetherall Award for Leading All-Rounder in English First-Class Cricket: 1970
- Winner of Walter Lawrence Trophy: 1974
- Wisden Cricketer of the Century: 2000
In 2000 Sobers was named by a 100-member panel of experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century. He received 90 votes from 100 possibilities. The other four selected cricket for honor were Don Bradman (100 votes), Jack Hobbs (30), Shane Warne (27) and Viv Richards (25).
In 2004, the International Cricket Council (ICC) inaugurated the Sir Garfield Sobers Cup awarded annually to players selected by ICC as the Best Player of the Year. Recommendations for awarding names after Sobers were made by panels comprising Richie Benaud, Sunil Gavaskar and Michael Holding, requested by the ICC "to elect an individual with whom to honor the highest cricket individual award".
In 2007, Wisden retrospectively chose Leading Cricketer in the World for every year since 1900 (except 1915-18 and 1940-45), Sobers was elected for eight years (1958, 1960, 1962, 1964-66, 1968 and 1970). Only Sobers and Bradman (10) who received the award more than three times.
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External links
- Garfield Sobers from the Barbados Government Information Service
- Sir Garfield Sobers website, Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
- Garfield SobersÃ, in CricketArchive (subscription required)
- Garfield Sobers on ESPNcricinfo
- Garfield Sobers appearance in It Is Your Life
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