Garfield Sobers

Garfield St Aubrun Sobers

Garfield Sobers

West Indies West Indies

Overview

Full Name Garfield St Aubrun Sobers
Age 88y 119d
Born Tuesday, July 28, 1936, Barbados
Batting Style Left Handed
Bowling Style Left-arm fast medium
Playing Role All Rounder

Teams represented

Awards

Wisden Cricketers of the Year
Wisden Cricketers of the Year - 1964

Biography

If Sir Don Bradman was the best batsman ever to grace the cricket field, Sir Garfield Sobers was the best over all cricketer. His record bears ample testimony to this fact. He had a career tally of 8032 runs at a staggering average of 57.78, while he picked up 235 Test wickets at almost 34. He could bowl both left arm medium pace, and left arm spin with equal aplomb, while his fielding was safe as the churches, pocketing 109 catches in all. All this for a cricketer who had started as a bowler who could bat a bit!

The first of his 26 Test centuries was a record breaking 365* against Pakistan – he broke Sir Len Hutton’s record – something that stood till Brian Lara broke it with a princely 375. Some years later, Sobers also became the first batsman in the history of cricket to hit six sixes in one first class over; the hapless bowler was Malcolm Nash. And all this translated into Sobers been chosen as the second best Wisden cricketer of the century, second only to Sir Dona Bradman.

Unfortunately, like many a greats, there was an anomaly in his cricketing records, and that was his ODI career. He played only one match, and failed to score a single run in it.

Debut
West Indies vs England at Jamaica - Tuesday, March 30, 1954

Batting

Matches 93
Innings 160
Runs 8032
100's - 50's 26 - 30
Sixes - Fours 31 - 723
Average 57.78
Strike Rate -
Highest Score (vs Pakistan, 26/02/1958) 365

Bowling

Matches 93
Innings 159
Overs 2699.7
Wickets 235
Economy Rate 2.22
Five-Wicket Haul Innings 6
Ten-Wicket Haul Innings 0
Best Figures (vs Australia, 06/12/1968) 6/73

Fielding

Catches 109
Stumpings 0
Run Outs 0

Career Runs

1299
975
650
325
Runs
Years

Career Wickets

32
24
16
8
Wickets
Years