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Sobers took 15 wickets in the 1960-61 series, including a best analysis of 5 / 120, at an average of 39. 20, and his bowling allowed Worrell to play an extra batsman in the final three Tests, thus using Sobers for the first time as a designated all-rounder, a role in which he became the dominant player in world cricket over the next decade, being awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World title ( retrospectively ) eight times in 13 years.
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Sobers and took
He took 7 / 49 at Jamaica, including in his haul the opener Steve Camacho, Rohan Kanhai, Gary Sobers ( lbw for another first ball duck ), Basil Butcher, David Holford, Charlie Griffith and Wes Hall as the West Indies were scuttled for 143.
The match was drawn, and Sobers took one wicket in the Australians ' only innings, before scoring 11 in the West Indies second innings.
Sobers scored 430 runs in the series, which Australia won 2-1, with two centuries ; his fielding was outstanding and he took 12 catches.
Fazal took three further wickets in the second innings including both Hunte and Sobers, the latter's wicket was Fazal's 100th in Test cricket, the first Pakistani to reach the landmark.
In the following match in Sydney, he took 7 / 76 in 21 overs including the scalp of Gary Sobers to secure his selection in the squad for the 1972 Ashes tour.
Despite the Sobers episode, he took just under 1000 first-class wickets ( including Sobers more than once ) at a good average of just over 25.
Sobers and 15
Farmer offered Sobers a chance to play for Police in the 1951 – 52 season while he was still only 15.
In 2004, in a poll by ESPN, participated in by 15 of the leading names in cricketing history, Richards was voted the third greatest ever player after Bradman and Sobers, and the second greatest ever batsman after Bradman.
Sobers and wickets
In 1966 Gary Sobers ' powerful West Indian team toured England and Snow was recalled after his 7 / 29 and 4 / 18 destroyed them before 10, 000 people at Hove when Sussex beat the tourists by 9 wickets.
Ironically England won the series at Trinidad with no help from Snow ( 0 / 68 and 1 / 29 ) thanks to a sporting declaration by Gary Sobers giving England two and three quarter hours to make 215 for victory, which they did for the loss of three wickets with three minutes to spare.
The wickets of Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd and Gary Sobers in the second innings ( 3 / 62 ) could not save him and he was dropped.
Sobers also scored 14 not out and 26 batting at number nine ; however, England won the match by nine wickets.
Sobers was not selected for the First Test, which the West Indies lost by nine wickets.
The series was not successful personally for Sobers, who struggled on the foreign batting wickets.
On the bowling front, Sobers struggled, taking five wickets at 71.
Sobers was never a prolific wicket-taker in Test cricket, and his average of three wickets per game in this series typified his whole career.
In the Fourth Test at Headingley, Sobers scored 114 and 59 as his team won by two wickets.
Gary Sobers did even better with the ball, his 97 wickets at 8. 38 heading the league averages.
1965 saw a repeat performance with Norton again winning the league and, though Sobers only averaged 25. 38 with the bat, he again topped the league bowling averages with 76 wickets at 8. 03.
Sobers spent three seasons with South Australia and in two he achieved the rare double of 1000 runs and 50 wickets.
Barrington had made only 4 and 0, but finished with 288 runs ( 41. 14 ) and 5 wickets ( 51. 40 ), having dismissed Sobers and Seymour Nurse twice each and the opener Steve Camacho.
Fazal taking six of the first seven wickets, the other dismissal that of Sobers by Mahmood Hussain involved Fazal as the catcher.
Sobers and 1960-61
Largely inspired by new West Indies captain Frank Worrell, who was a close personal friend, Sobers had an outstanding 1960-61 series in Australia.
In the 1961 – 62 Australian season which followed the 1960-61 West Indies tour, Sobers and his West Indian colleagues Wes Hall and Rohan Kanhai returned to Australia to take part in the Sheffield Shield.
Sobers and series
* A " Rest of the World " team captained by Garry Sobers playes five unofficial Test matches against England winning the series 4 – 1.
In 1966-67, Sobers captained the West Indies team to India in 1966-67 and they won the series 2-0 with one match drawn.
In 1968-69, Sobers captained the West Indian cricket team in Australia in 1968-69 but they lost the series 3-1 and then drew a three-Test series in New Zealand 1-1.
Sobers captained West Indies for the five-Test home series versus India in 1970-71.
Sobers was succeeded as West Indies captain by Rohan Kanhai for the 1972-73 home series against Australia.
Sobers did not play in that series but returned to play under Kanhai in England in 1973.
Sobers was invited to captain the Rest of the World in both series.
A Rest of the World side, captained by Gary Sobers and including 5 of the South African team, played a 5 match ' Test ' series instead and Arlott happily rejoined the TMS commentary team to cover those matches.
Sobers, remembering the England collapse in the Second Test declared at 92 / 2 leaving England 215 to win in 135 minutes, a run-rate they had yet to achieve in the series.
Sobers was lambasted by the Caribbean press for his cavalier declaration, but responded in the Fifth Test in Georgetown, Guyana with 152 and 95 not out, Barrington taking his wicket again in the first innings, and England were struggling at 206 / 9 when stumps were pulled on the last day, but they drew the match and won the series.
Pollock had a poor series by his standards, but he did make 114 in the final match at The Oval, sharing in a fifth wicket partnership of 165 with Gary Sobers.
Walters starred in an unofficial Test series to a Rest of the World team led by Gary Sobers that toured in 1971 – 72 as a replacement for the politically unacceptable South Africans, scoring 355 runs in four matches at an average of 71. 00, with 2 centuries.
In the third Test of the same series he made 260, including a partnership of 446 with Garfield Sobers which was then the second-highest partnership in history and is the sixth highest — Sobers went on to make a then world-record 365 not out as the West Indies reached 790 for 3 declared.
Sobers and including
Sobers gained useful experience by bowling to Wanderers batsmen, including West Indies Test player Denis Atkinson, at practice in the nets and soon developed his great skill as a left arm spin bowler.
Many notable professionals have appeared in the Littleborough side over the years, including Sir Garfield Sobers, Joel Garner, Ezra Moseley, Franklyn Stephenson, Andy Roberts, Mike Whitney, and Stuart Law.
Gary Sobers returned with the West Indies in 1966 including Charlie Griffith who had been accused of throwing by the Australians Bobby Simpson, Norm O ' Neill and Wally Grout.
Rather than send an unprepared team to Australia the Rest of the World XI under Garry Sobers was created from the overseas cricketers playing in the County Championship, including the South Africans Graeme Pollock, Mike Procter, Barry Richards and Eddie Barlow.
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