Auberon Sobers as the Queen laid the dubbing sword on both his shoulders before the crowd at Garrison Savannah Racecourse. It was only the second time the Queen had bestowed a knighthood at an open-air ceremony.
The first such recipient was Sir Francis Chichester. There was a huge cheer from the crowd, and later supporters engulfed Sir Garfield and his Australian-born wife, Lady Prudence, as they tried to drive away.
Sir Garfield first played for the West Indies when only 17, then went on to captain the team in some of its greatest triumphs. By the time he retired from full-time cricket he had played in more than 80 tests and held the world's highest aggregate of 7, runs in test cricket. While playing against Pakistan in he set the world record test score of runs not out. Sir Garfield joined Nottinghamshire Country Cricket club in and gave up the captaincy of the team in We always welcome comments and more information about our films.
He was an enterprising captain - at times maybe too enterprising, as when a generous declaration allowed England to win a decisive match at Port-of-Spain. Born with an extra finger on each hand removed at birth , Sobers excelled at most athletic activities, playing golf, soccer and bastketball for Barbados, and made his first class debut at the age of 16, appearing in Tests a year later.
He was played initially mostly as a bowler, but four years later set the Test record for an individual batsman with a mammoth against Pakistan. His achievments are numerous - including the six consecutive sixes hit off an over from the unfortunate Malcolm Nash, a superb innings of for the Rest of the World against Australia in that earned the praise of Don Bradman, and much more.
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None would contest it. Across two decades Sobers brought to a cricket world as diverse as the Caribbean, the Test arena, English county cricket with Nottinghamshire, Sheffield Shield cricket with South Australia, and even North Staffs and South Cheshire League cricket with Norton, plus hundreds of charity games, a vibrancy, nobility of spirit and versatility of accomplishment that transcended all statistics.
These were remarkable enough: 8, runs, wickets and catches in 93 Test matches for West Indies. More significantly, he could turn the tide of a Test within an hour, and it was on these occasions that partisanship was suspended.
You simply sat back and marvelled at the occasion. From the direst situation his only thought was to attack. He was physically fearless. He never wore a thigh-pad, never mind a helmet, and, from his boyhood days with the Barbados Police team until his retirement, he was only seriously hit twice. Such was his adaptability that he could bowl left-arm very fast, swinging it both ways, left-arm finger-spin and left-arm wrist-spin. By his own recollection, he was no-balled fewer than half a dozen times during his entire career.
Perhaps the most fundamental argument against the modern idiom of cricket is that Sobers was never coached. He mistrusted coaches. He learned the game playing all spare hours in the street with his brothers and friends and then, after the early Barbados sunset, playing on with miniature implements, much to the detriment of the furniture, in his despairing mother's house.
His real apprenticeship started at the age of 12 when, as the kid next door, he started bowling in the nets to members of the fashionable Wanderers Club, earning a cent piece every time he knocked it off the centre stump. It made him more money than he earned at the furniture factory down the road.
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