Famous Cricketers No 42 - Gary Sobers

185. WEST INDIES v ENGLAND, Headingley, August 4, 5, 6, 8 (West Indies won by an innings and 55 runs) b R.W.Barber 174 500/8d 19.3 4 41 5 J.M.Parks lbw 240 F.J.Titmus c J.L.Hendriks K.Higgs c S.M.Nurse D.L.Underwood c L.R.Gibbs J.A.Snow c D.A.J.Holford 20.1 5 39 3 R.W.Barber b 205 B.L.D’Oliveira c B.F.Butcher K.Higgs c C.C.Hunte 186. West Indians v Warwickshire, Edgbaston, August 13, 15, 16 (West Indians won by ten wickets) b R.V.Webster 36 441 9.3 3 18 1 D.J.Brown b 173 1 did not bat - 50/0 30.4 6 89 3 K.Ibadulla c S.M.Nurse 315 J.A.Jameson c E.D.A.McMorris D.J.Brown c L.R.Gibbs 187. WEST INDIES v ENGLAND, Kennington Oval, August 18, 19, 20, 22 (England won by an innings and 34 runs) c T.W.Graveney b R.W.Barber 81 268 54 23 104 3 R.W.Barber c S.M.Nurse 527 J.H.Edrich c J.L.Hendriks J.T.Murray lbw c D.B.Close b J.A.Snow 0 225 188. West Indians v Hampshire, Southampton, August 27, (29), 30 (Match drawn) c H.Horton b A.R.Wassell 35 191 10 3 18 1 B.L.Reed b 103/2 c and b A.T.Castell 23 134/5d 6 1 7 0 142/2 189. West Indians v T.N.Pearce’s XI, Scarborough, September 3, 5, 6 (T.N.Pearce’s XI won by two wickets) c D.L.Underwood b D.B.Close 46 234 7 0 22 0 300/5d c P.H.Parfitt b F.S.Trueman 44 342/8d 12 1 36 2 A.R.Lewis c and b 277/8 1 B.R.Knight b SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Tests 5 8 1 722 174 103.14 3 2 10 Other matches 13 17 2 627 153 41.80 1 1 13 Seasons 18 25 3 1349 174 61.31 4 3 23 Career 189 300 42 14983 365* 58.07 48 57 202 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Tests 269.4 78 545 20 5/41 27.25 1 - Other matches 287.4 80 690 40 9/59 17.25 2 - Season (6-ball) 557.2 158 1235 60 9/49 20.58 3 - Career (6-ball) 4140.3 1153 } 14877 539 9/49 27.60 21 - (8-ball) 1362.1 163 1966/67 - West Indians in India and Ceylon Sobers led the West Indians on their third successful tour of the sub-continent. His squad won 4 of its 10 first-class matches and lost only 1. It also defeated India 2-0 in the three-Test series. The captain enhanced his already enormous reputation as the world’s greatest all-rounder by employing three different styles of bowling to capture 14 wickets in the Tests from which he also extracted 342 runs at an average of 114 per innings. In his 8 appearances at the batting crease, he failed to reach at least 45 only once. He achieved five consecutive fifties in the Test matches. Only the third West Indian batsman to exceed 15,000 runs, Sobers now surged ahead of Worrell who had ended his career in 1964 with 15,025. By the time the tour was over, he trailed only Marshall (28,257) of Barbados and Hampshire. 41