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	Legends: Gary Sobers
		Sobers was hanged in effigy and had he not been the player he was, he would have lost the captaincy.
		Sobers played 86 Tests on the trot from 1954 onwards and would probably have continued playing without interruption but for being left out of the team in 1973 due to the whims of selectors who felt he had to prove his fitness.
		Sobers was skipper for 39 Tests and he won nine of those and lost 10.
	www.yehhaicricket.com /legends/sirgarysobers/sirgary_sober.html (1127 words)

	Garfield Sobers - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, KBE (born July 28, 1936 in Barbados), better known as Garry Sobers (though earlier in his life he preferred the spelling Gary), was a West Indies cricket player.
		In 2000, Sobers was named by a 100-member panel of experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century.
		Sobers received 90 votes, behind Sir Donald Bradman (who received all 100 votes).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Gary_Sobers (436 words)

	Calypso Cricket - Sir Gary Sobers
		As a bowler, Sobers captured 235 wickets during his test career, and he did so using three style so of bowling - fast medium and two types of spin (left-arm orthodox and left-arm leg break) - something virtually heard of in today's game.
		But undoubtedly, he is most celebrated for his batting achievements, most notably for being the first player to score six sixes in a single over (during a first-class match in in 1971), and for breaking the world record for highest individual test score when he scored 365 not out against Pakistan in 1958.
		Sobers was also known as a sharp fielder and an enterprising capatin.
	www.macewanpr.ca /students05/sherrib/web/garysobers.html (211 words)

	Cricinfo - Sobers: Excessive appealing disgusts and sickens me
		In an interview with the BBC World Service, Sobers said that he is sickened and disgusted when players refuse to walk and appeal optimistically.
		Sobers said that when he was playing cheating was something he never wanted to do, and that he used to walk when he knew he was out.
		Sobers also criticised bowlers who appeal for leg-before when they know the batsman has hit the ball.
	uk.cricinfo.com /link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2001/APR/101854_CI_17APR2001.html (272 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| cricket \| news Sobers honoured by ICC
		Sobers, who was knighted for his services to cricket in 1975, said: "It is a great honour to have this award named after me."
		The recommendation to name the award after Sobers came from a group of three cricket legends — Richie Benaud, Sunil Gavaskar and Michael Holding — who were asked by the ICC to select an individual with whom to honour cricket's ultimate individual award.
		Sobers played 93 Tests and one One-Day International in his 20-year career, scoring 8 032 runs and claiming 235 wickets in Test cricket.
	sport.iafrica.com /cricket/news/345581.htm (319 words)

	[nukkad] Gary Sobers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sobers made two tours to India (1958-59 and 1966-67), both of which were successful for his side and for himself, and highly eventful as well, particularly the latter, when he was captain.
		He remembers the affair with fondness ("she was so beautiful and such a nice person"), though he reveals for the first time that if he had taken her to England for marriage as he intended, he would have had to deposit "a certain amount of money in the Reserve Bank as a sort of dowry".
		It was on the tour to Pakistan in 1959 (his only one) that, Sobers reveals, there was a planned campaign by the local authorities with the connivance of the umpires to ensure he would not score heavily.
	www.mumbai-central.com /nukkad/may2003/msg00485.html (844 words)

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		Sobers again created history in 1968 by becoming the first batsman to hit six 6s in First Class Cricket.
		One of Sir Gary's fondest memories is the second Test against England at Lord's in 1966.
		Sobers was undefeated on 163, and Holford had scored what would be his only Test century, 105 not out.
	caribsport01.homestead.com /sobers.html (567 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sachin Tendulkar received yet another accolade, with Sir Garfield Sobers - arguably the greatest cricketer ever - saying the Indian champion is ahead of Lara in his concentration and thinking ability.
		Sobers, the supreme all-rounder with over 8,032 runs, 235 wickets and 109 catches from 93 Tests, however, said he expected both Lara and Tendulkar to go on and join the very best of all time.
		Speaking his mind out against the comparison of past and present cricketers, Sobers said he did not see any merit in trying to equate players of different eras and evaluating them, as the game has undergone tremendous changes.
	www.ndtv.com /template/sportstemplate.asp?template=windies&id=8652&callid=4 (241 words)

	CNNSI.com - Cricket - Sobers blames coaches for Windies' problems - Monday November 20, 2000 08:26 AM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sobers, 64, said star batsman Brian Lara would have trouble carrying the struggling team, which would not be helped by the appointment of two test coaches.
		Sobers played 93 tests, scoring 8,032 runs at an average of 57.78 including the then world record of 365 not out in 1958.
		Sobers flew into Brisbane in Queensland on Sunday for a special 40th anniversary celebration of the famous tied test between Australia and the West Indies during the 1960-61 series.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2000/11/20/harper_windies (468 words)

	OAS Children's Page
		Sobers captained the West Indies cricket team for 39 matches between 1965 and 1972, the Barbados team in 1966 and 1967, Nottinghamshire from 1968-1971 and the Rest of the World for two tours - one of England and the other of Australia.
		They rightly observe that Sir Garfield Sobers is "the star personality in the history of West Indies cricket" and that "he helped to make Barbados the strongest cricketing country in the Caribbean during its early period of Independence".
		He richly deserved the engraving of his picture on a Barbados Independence Postage Stamp in 1966, the knighthood which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II saw fit to bestow upon him in 1975 and the placing of his name on the Players' Pavilion at Kensington Oval.
	www.oas.org /children/heroes/Barba.Heroes/sobers.htm (1208 words)

	Caribbean Net News: Don't blame Lara, says Windies legend Sobers
		LONDON, England (AFP): West Indies legend Gary Sobers has lent his support to Brian Lara saying that the under-fire captain should not be made a scapegoat for the Caribbean team's first home series defeat by England for 36 years.
		Sobers was speaking after Michael Vaughan's England team wrapped up the third Test in Barbados by eight wickets inside three days to take a 3-0 lead in the four-match series.
		Sobers, who played in that 1968 series which Colin Cowdrey's England won by 1-0, was impressed by England's performance.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /2004/04/06/sobers.htm (445 words)

	The Hindu : The greatest of them all
		Next to Sobers stood the dimunitive Anjou Mahendru, a Bollywood starlet he was briefly engaged to.
		Anjou (who had very soon broken up with Sobers, or more likely he with her) was at first sitting with Pammi Gavaskar, a row behind Sir Garfield, as he now was.
		Sobers had missed the previous Test through injury, being absent while Denis Lillee, in his first season in international cricket, claimed 8 for 29.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/03/18/stories/0718028i.htm (1343 words)

	This India, this 'Spain'
		Plain sailing it was not, amazingly, for Gary Sobers and the West Indies even as the Reign in 'Spain' began for Ajit Wadekar's India by the time our team moved into Trinidad for the Port-of-Spain second Test set to determine the Queen's Park Oval shape of things to come.
		Sobers did not walk, though there was no doubt that the ball had curled off his defensive bat.
		Gary Sobers thus made the agonising discovery that there was not a moment during which he could rest on his laurels.
	www.sportstaronnet.com /tss2516/25160420.htm (1323 words)

	Great Sport Stories 1973,1974,1975,1976 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The West Indies captaincy had been handed from Gary Sobers to Rohan Kanhai and most of the party were familiar with English conditions, having honed their skills on the county circuit.
		Sobers and Kanhai signed-off in their last Test in England by scoring 150‘s at Lord’s.
		Sobers contribution with both bat and ball was the swansong on an unparalleled career.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /haywardlad/centsport/1973-76.html (1920 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		West Indies legend Sir Gary Sobers blamed complacency for the nation'sfirst series defeat by England in the Caribbean since 1968.
		And Sobers, the finest all-rounder of the modern game, felt it was the WestIndies' failure to give England the respect they deserve which paved the way fortheir recent results.
		Sobers heaped praise on England's performance and insisted they were startingto see the fruits of a change in selectorial policy which now values youth overexperience.
	www.teamtalk.com /O2/Show_Story/1,8801,V0lORElFUyBLSUxMRUQgQlkgQ09NUExBQ0VOQ1kgLSBTT0JFUlMg,00.html?storyName=cricket/04/04/04/CRICKET_West_Indies_Sobers.html&sport=cricket (350 words)

	King rules in West Indies cricket
		Sobers will be working with specific individuals, as identified by King, for technical and tactical improvement.
		Sobers was openly critical of Roger Harper’s appointment claiming the former all rounder had to go back to school to learn how to bowl.
		One of the characteristics of Sobers the cricketer was his ability to get the best out of less celebrated players as he did in his famous partnership with David Holford at Lords.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /2004/11/05/hackett.htm (1008 words)

	[No title]
		Everyone knows that Gary Sobers was the first man in cricket history to hit 6 sixes in one over.
		Sobers' feat was emulated by Ravi Shastri on Jan 10th, 1985.
		Sobers other record - the 365 - was also in a dead match on a dead pitch against a very dead Pakistani attack.
	windiescricketfever.mywowbb.com /forum1/33.html (792 words)

	Gary Sobers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was an all-rounder, that is, he both batted and bowled.
		Sobers was exceptional with the bat, as well, with a career Test average of57.78.
		In 2000 Sobers was named by a 100-member panel of experts as one of the Top FiveCricketers of the Century.
	www.therfcc.org /gary-sobers-257944.html (239 words)

	BBC Caribbean
		Sobers will be the stabilizing force between Lara and the Australian (remember the Australian physiotherapist episode).
		Sir Gary's presence serves as a buffer between the new coach and BC Lara.
		Gary as far as I am aware was and still not keen on "the modern scientific approach".
	www.bbc.co.uk /caribbean/news/story/2004/10/041031_windiescoach-appointed.shtml (595 words)

	A Brief History of Cricket in Morac-Songhrati-Meads
		It was said he glided over the ground like a snake." He appears unlucky to have been dropped after his sole test, as his 29 (out of 187 all out) was one of the highest scores of the Australian second innings.
		In one memorable match Gary Sobers was bowled first ball by local player Greg Stapleton, a moment Mr Stapleton no doubt still dines out on.
		Gary Sobers thrilled the local crowd in the next match however by taking five wickets in five deliveries.
	www.angelfire.com /ri/songhrati/cricket.html (540 words)

	BBC News \| WALES \| Record 'six sixes' bat sold for over £54,000
		The historic bat used by cricket legend Sir Gary Sobers against Glamorgan to hit six sixes in one over has been sold for over £54,000 by Christies in Melbourne, Australia.
		Sobers is understood to have given the ball to the Trent Bridge museum in Nottingham, but its current whereabouts are a complete mystery.
		Sobers' six sixes feat has only been equalled once, by India's Ravi Shastri, when batting for Bombay in the mid eighties.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/wales/955730.stm (309 words)

	CricInfo Interactive - Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sir Gary was in the Bay Area attending the Third Annual Kingfisher Cup, hosted by the NCCA.
		Sir Gary: Well, I was invited here by the NCCA to their banquet and also to have a look at the cricket competition which is going on at the present moment, and to open one of the matches that started yesterday, and there's also a banquet on this evening which I'll be at..
		Sir Gary: Well, I suppose cricket is a game which you have to be born into to understand the difference and the excitement of it.
	www.cricinfo.com /link_to_database/INTERACTIVE/INTERVIEWS/IRC/1998/SOBERS_GSTA_05SEP1998.html (4103 words)

	The Great All-Rounder- signed by Sir Garfield Sobers - Limited edition authentically signed sports memorabilia from Big ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sir Gary Sobers plays a spectacular cover drive during the Second Test against England at Edgbaston in 1973.
		Sobers had arrived and, over the course of the following decade, helped the West Indies carve out a reputation as the foremost test side of the age.
		As West Indian Captain, Gary Sobers was an inspiration, carving out a reputation as the world's pre-eminent all-rounder.
	www.bigbluetube.com /Products/Sir_Garfield_Sobers.aspx (563 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The memory of his closest friend, Collie Smith, who died in a car accident when Sobers was at the wheel, haunted cricket’s greatest all rounder throughout his life.
		A printer’s gaffe, or has Gary Sobers begun to spell his name differently?) Sobers, also begins with a chapter on the importance of Smith in Sobers’s life and on his phenomenal cricketing abilities.
		Sobers confirms here all the impressions that cricket lovers have of him.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030404/asp/opinion/story_1837075.asp (418 words)

	How good is Brian Lara? - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		I couldn't say that he is better than Sobers or Sobers is better than him, or he is better than Richards or Richards better than him.
		With Gary (Sobers), the wicket could be bad and the next thing he makes it look a good pitch because of the way he played.
		With Sobers you never saw him looking as if he is out of touch, when he is on he is on.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /sports/html/20050715T200000-0500_84235_OBS_HOW_GOOD_IS_BRIAN_LARA_.asp (1933 words)

	BBC SPORT \| CRICKET \| Sobers says Scots should be better
		Sir Gary Sobers has expressed his surprise that Scottish cricket has not made greater advances.
		Yet Sobers believes Scotland can continue to rise through the ranks of International cricket and eventually be elevated to Test status.
		Sir Gary arrived in Dundee the day after England were controversially beaten by Pakistan thanks to several no balls not spotted by the umpire.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/cricket/1372324.stm (488 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - WI camp under way and running smoothly - Sunday \| December 5, 2004
		Apart from Howard and Sobers, the new management team includes four Austra-lians in head coach Bennett King, assistant coach David Moore, coaching manager Darren Holder and physiotherapist Stephen Partridge, and what is interesting is that Sobers, the Great One, is also impressed and particularly so by the methods of King.
		The Sobers quotes were reported on the West Indies Board's website, and this one is particularly interesting.
		Based on the reactions of Howard and Sobers, however, so far, so good, and hopefully this team, inclusive of Howard and Sobers, will continue from their good start and build a West Indies team that will be, once gain, one of the best and then the best in the world.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20041205/sports/sports7.html (569 words)

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