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00:06He was one of the finest batsmen of all time.
00:09He could lead the attack with high-quality fast-medium bowling,
00:13or he could win a match with finger spin or wrist spin.
00:16He was a dazzling fielder in any position.
00:20The ultimate all-round player, Garfield Sobers,
00:24is one of ESPN's legends of cricket.
00:48He's got that shorty one.
00:50It's up again.
00:55Swansea, Wales, 1968.
00:57Gary Sobers faces Glamorgan spinner Malcolm Nash.
01:01Oh, this is incredible.
01:03Now, this is six on the charts, a world record.
01:08And he's done it!
01:09He's done it!
01:10And my goodness, it's gone way down to Swansea.
01:15It really was blistering stuff for him to hit 6-6s.
01:19It had never been achieved before in first-class cricket.
01:21Sobers was pretty determined to make his mark in history,
01:23and he achieved that, and it really is an indication of the way he played the game.
01:28He always played with flair, always played trying to excite the crowd,
01:32and there was no more exciting achievement than hitting 6-6s in an over.
01:40Sobers was a fearless, aggressive batsman,
01:43a powerful hitter with a textbook technique.
01:47Gary Sobers, as a batsman, it's hard to describe him.
01:51His whole defence was attack, I suppose, you can really say.
01:57And, of course, his stroke range was so phenomenal.
02:02You know, he could hook, he could pull.
02:05You know, he had an array of shots, an array of shots which normal batsmen don't have.
02:11And, of course, with this incredible eye and the fastest hands
02:15and best hands I've ever seen on a batsman
02:18made him sort of something special.
02:21His feet and his head were usually in the right spot.
02:24And as a reader of length, he was the guy who went back and forward when he was supposed to.
02:29So technically he was very, very good,
02:30and that was married to a hitting ability which was exceptional.
02:35Oh, best ever. Best thing in two legs.
02:38I think he's the best thing since sliced bread.
02:40This guy is just tremendous.
02:42I mean, you were in awe of him.
02:51As a bowler, Sobers was extraordinarily versatile.
02:54He came into test cricket as a spinner,
02:57but he became a skilful exponent of swing and seam.
03:01He started his career as a left-arm spinner.
03:04He could also bowl left-arm googlies.
03:06And when he put his mind to it,
03:08he was an exceptionally quick and late-swinging left-arm seamer.
03:11He was the complete package.
03:13And for that reason, he's got to be the greatest all-round cricketer there's ever been
03:18and quite possibly the greatest cricketer.
03:19He bowls quick, he bowls spin, you know,
03:23and you know, back-of-the-arm stuff, orthodox, left-arm stuff.
03:27Yes, Gary Sobers was probably one in a million.
03:31He was a genius.
03:33He could do everything.
03:34He could bat, he could bowl, he could field.
03:36And even when bowling, he could bowl spin,
03:38he could bowl quick, he could bowl swing,
03:41he could bowl back-of-the-hand Chinaman stuff.
03:43He was the complete cricketer.
03:45And I dare say that if he was asked to keep cricketer,
03:48he would have done a very good job with that as well.
03:55In the field, Sobers could take blinding catches close to the bat
03:59and fire in searing returns from the deep.
04:04Sobers took a catch in the tide test on the last day to dismiss Neil Harvey.
04:09And it was a wonderful catch because it was off Wes Hall,
04:11it was very, very quick.
04:12But not only did he dive sideways,
04:14but he also had to dive forward to catch him.
04:15And if you can imagine how hard a skill that is,
04:17I mean, in very, very few slipfielders,
04:19you always see slipfield catches dropping short of people.
04:22It's very hard to dive forward and sideways at the same time.
04:25But Sobers had that goalkeeping skill to be able to do that
04:28and take the great catches.
04:29And similarly, in short leg,
04:31he could cover great distances when he fielded in close,
04:33especially he made a bit of an art form of fielding
04:35in close to Lance Gibbs' bowling.
04:37Lance Gibbs, of course, was a great off-spin bowler.
04:40And Sobers around the corner was absolutely magnificent,
04:45snapping up balls which were a couple of inches off the ground.
04:48Gibbs would say that Sobers' anticipation
04:50at that short leg position was something incredible.
04:54That as the batsman was playing the shot,
04:57Sobers knew exactly where the ball was going to come
04:59and the anticipation was there.
05:01And Sobers would inevitably take the catch.
05:04Literally, he was a complete all-rounder
05:05because he'd take the new ball,
05:07a lively pace, I mean, lively, swing it around,
05:09and then, oh, you saw us for a bowl,
05:13come back, good slip-fielder, close-fielder,
05:15and then, oh, I'll just come and bowl you some of these now,
05:16some Chinaman and Googlies, and did it well.
05:19And then as a batsman, well, magnificent, wasn't he?
05:22Sobers gives visual proof of his reputation
05:24as one of the great batsmen in the world today.
05:38Like so many young West Indians,
05:40Gary Sobers, born in Barbados,
05:42developed his cricket on the beach.
05:46Up to today, beach cricket is still being played in Barbados,
05:49and it's played by some of the boys that I played with.
05:52It didn't matter what age you were,
05:53you still went and played beach cricket.
05:55And you went down there with your own bat,
05:57and it was like playing firms,
06:00what we used to call firms,
06:02who got the ball, they balled it,
06:03who took the catch, they batted.
06:05And it was first bunks.
06:07You caught the ball first bunks, you batted.
06:12Sobers continued his cricket education
06:14by moving from the beach into club cricket.
06:18In Barbados, we had two leagues.
06:20The BCA, which was the Barbados Cricket Association,
06:23that is the higher class of cricket.
06:24And then you had the BCL,
06:26which was the Barbados Cricket League.
06:27And that was where players like myself,
06:30and probably Conward Hand,
06:32and Claremont, De Pisa, Everton Weeks,
06:34and then we went through the ranks there,
06:36we played our trials,
06:37and then played for Barbados,
06:39and to the West Indies name.
06:42Sobers played his first test match in 1954,
06:45at 17 years of age.
06:47In his initial 22 completed innings,
06:50he made double figures 18 times,
06:53without ever reaching 70.
06:55It took Sobers four years to post his first century,
06:58but it was worth the wait.
07:00Against Pakistan in Kingston in early 1958,
07:04he played one of cricket's most famous innings,
07:06a world record 365 not out.
07:11It was such a massive innings,
07:13it remained a world record for 36 years,
07:15until Brian Lara, a fellow West Indian,
07:17happily broke it,
07:18and Sobers was there on the boundaries edge
07:20to greet Lara,
07:20when he finally surpassed such a massive milestone.
07:23And like Sobers, like Lara,
07:27they were both pretty young when they achieved the feat.
07:29I mean, Sobers was only 21,
07:30he was a total whippersnapper,
07:32and it really surprised people,
07:34because he'd actually been picked for his bowling.
07:40Between 1958 and 1960,
07:43Gary Sobers made nine test-match sentries,
07:46and averaged more than 90.
07:48In a sequence of ten innings against India and Pakistan,
07:52he made six sentries.
07:54Although his cricket fortunes were high,
07:57Sobers encountered a life-changing tragedy
07:59in September 1959.
08:02A car he was driving was involved in a collision.
08:05that claimed the life of his passenger,
08:08close friend and West Indian teammate,
08:10Collie Smith.
08:12Sobers was devastated.
08:14The impact that must have had on Sobers,
08:16Smith was his best friend,
08:17certainly his best friend in cricket.
08:20Smith, a lot of people have suggested,
08:22would have made a great West Indian captain.
08:24He was an all-rounder of, you know,
08:27obviously of a lot of ability.
08:29He was something of a protege as a warrel,
08:32being from Jamaica, where Warrel had been based.
08:36And the effect it had on Sobers was to...
08:39Sobers then basically took the attitude
08:41that life is for living, day by day,
08:43who knows what will happen tomorrow.
08:44And he became something of a reckless character.
08:48The now-famous 1960-61 tour of Australia
08:52was to prove critical to Sobers' well-being
08:55and to his future in cricket.
08:58The immediate effect it had on Sobers
09:00really was to persuade him not to care too much anymore.
09:06He wanted to enjoy everything about his life.
09:08He partied hard, he drank hard, he played hard.
09:11And in many ways, it possibly persuaded him
09:14to carry on being a great cricketer,
09:16having just broken the world record, age 21.
09:18He didn't stop.
09:19He carried on being arguably the greatest cricketer,
09:23all-round cricketer there's ever been.
09:24This sizzling straight drive takes the score past 100,
09:28and even Beno has to applaud the brilliance of Garfield Sobers.
09:31Once more a boundary...
09:32Sobers made 132 on the first day of the series in Brisbane.
09:37The tour gave West Indian crickets an enormous boost,
09:40and it proved to be a personal blessing for Sobers.
09:43Find the bowler now to feel the might of this 24-year-old batsman
09:47who has just scored his 10-100 in Test cricket.
09:50That 100 he scored in the Tide Test
09:52is easily the best Test 100 I've ever seen,
09:55because he didn't just beat the field, he bisected the field.
09:58He just played some of the most incredible shots,
10:01and his timing...
10:03And when Gary was going,
10:06basically there was nothing he could do about it.
10:09APPLAUSE
10:17At the end of the tour,
10:19Sir Donald Bradman invited Sobers to play for South Australia
10:22in the Sheffield Shield competition.
10:24Don thought that it would be nice to have some of the players
10:27that took part in that series come back to Australia,
10:32and he wanted me to come and play for South Australia,
10:35and I really had looked forward to coming back
10:37and playing in the domestic season over here.
10:39because I knew that it would have helped to improve
10:43my outlook on the game and my cricket in general.
10:46And it did.
10:49Sobers topped both the batting and bowling averages for the season.
10:52In his final match, he made 251 and took 6 for 72.
10:58For the next decade, he would reign undisputed
11:01as the world's best all-round cricketer.
11:05I've always said Gary Sobers was not only a great batsman,
11:08he was a great... or he is a great human being.
11:10It was mostly a magnificent experience
11:12batting down the other end to Gary.
11:13The only problem was he was such a hard hitter of the ball
11:16and such a straight driver,
11:18you had to really be on your toes at the other end
11:20because he hit a lot of balls hard,
11:22straight back down the pitch,
11:23and you...
11:24One, you had to make sure that you were quickly back in your crease
11:26so that you didn't get run out off the bowler's hands
11:29or get collected with one.
11:42In 1963, Gary Sobers became only the second man
11:46after Keith Miller to make 300 runs
11:48and take 20 wickets in a test series.
11:51He would repeat the effort three years later,
11:53again in England,
11:54and he remains the only player
11:57to have achieved that double twice.
11:59Gary Sobers was the man.
12:02In the 60s when I was born
12:04and early 70s,
12:05everyone aspired to be a Gary Sobers
12:07because he...
12:08It means if you were a Sobers,
12:09you were always involved.
12:10He was the main batsman,
12:11he was a quality bowler,
12:12and he was a high-class fieldsman.
12:14So he was the man that really inspired me.
12:16Gary Sobers was certainly the best cricketer
12:18I ever played against.
12:20You know, he was...
12:21Four players rolled into one, you know,
12:23he was a great batsman,
12:25great fieldsman,
12:27probably five players rolled into one
12:29because he could bowl
12:29left-handed Chinamans,
12:31left-handed Orthodox,
12:33he could also bowl quickly,
12:34could take the new ball.
12:36He was just a magic player.
12:37Look, if he was around today,
12:38he'd be an absolute sensation.
12:41In 1966, Sobers, now captain,
12:44led the West Indies
12:44to a 3-1 series victory over England.
12:47He made 722 runs,
12:49including three centuries,
12:50and averaged over 103.
12:53He also took 20 wickets,
12:55held 11 catches,
12:57and won all five tosses.
12:59In 1966, he dominated that series.
13:02You could look at his figures
13:03with bat and ball,
13:04and he's catching around the corner
13:05to Lance Gibbs,
13:07or wherever he was fielding.
13:09He was a wonderful,
13:10wonderful natural cricketer.
13:11West Indies at Lourdes in 1966
13:15were 90-odd for five
13:17in their second innings.
13:18The lead then was about nine,
13:19so they were in real trouble.
13:21All the main batsmen had gone,
13:22and David Holford,
13:23who was his first cousin,
13:25all-rounder,
13:26playing in only a second test match,
13:27very inexperienced,
13:28comes in.
13:28Lourdes, big crowd,
13:30and West Indies in trouble,
13:31England on top,
13:34and first couple of deliveries,
13:35Sobers could see
13:36that Holford was a bit nervous,
13:37and he came down the pitch
13:38and said,
13:39what's the problem?
13:40He said, look,
13:40this is just like Spartan,
13:42which is a club team back home.
13:43The bowling is no better
13:44than the club bowlers
13:46we have at home.
13:46Look at the conditions,
13:47look at the pitch.
13:48Just play as if you're playing
13:49club cricket at home,
13:50and that relaxed Holford right away,
13:52and this is the way
13:53Sobers played cricket.
13:55Test cricket,
13:55club cricket,
13:56division one cricket,
13:57first class cricket,
13:58it didn't matter to him.
13:59He played it
13:59as if it was just a game,
14:01and he was so relaxed,
14:03had no nerves, whatever.
14:10Sobers was accused
14:11of reckless captaincy
14:12in early 1968
14:13when he set England
14:15a target of just 215 runs
14:17to win the fourth test.
14:20Gary went in
14:20and he'd made
14:21an amazing declaration,
14:23and I think he left England
14:24to get 215 in 165 minutes.
14:29Well, that's asking for a lot,
14:30and I think Colin Caldery
14:32wasn't inclined to go for it,
14:34but boycott of all people was.
14:36In there went,
14:37and England won the match.
14:37And of course,
14:38in the West Indies,
14:40Gary was nearly
14:41hung Jordan and quarter for this.
14:43He said he threw the match away.
14:44Well, he didn't throw the match away.
14:46England won it,
14:47but he made a sporting gesture
14:49to keep the game alive,
14:50and to keep cricket alive.
14:51And I think that was part of Sobers.
14:54He just loved the game.
14:57Sobers responded in the fifth test
14:59with another stirring
15:00all-round performance.
15:02He made 152 and 95 not out
15:05and bowled 68 overs
15:07for six wickets.
15:09But England held on,
15:10and the series was lost.
15:12A lot of people will
15:14have different views
15:15about Sir Garfield Sobers
15:17as a captain
15:17because of the fact
15:18that Sir Garfield Sobers
15:20pretty much gambled a lot
15:22on his captaincy,
15:23in that Sir Garfield Sobers
15:25would make declarations
15:26that other people,
15:28more conservative captains,
15:29wouldn't make
15:30because Sir Garfield Sobers
15:31knew his ability,
15:32and perhaps he thought
15:33others had his ability
15:35as well within the team.
15:42The final six years
15:43of Sobers' test career
15:45were characterized somewhat
15:46by criticism and controversy.
15:49Gary Sobers
15:50may not be considered by many
15:52to have been the greatest
15:53captain of all time,
15:54but I can tell you
15:54that in my experience
15:56every single thing he did,
15:58he did in the best interest
15:59of the game.
16:00He was always trying to win.
16:01He always tried to score
16:02his runs fast.
16:03He always tried to get wickets
16:04when he was bowling.
16:05He never thought
16:06about averages
16:07in any aspect
16:09of his game.
16:11And then
16:12to be able to sit with him
16:14at the end of the day
16:15was just a privilege.
16:24after passing 7,000 career runs
16:26at home against India,
16:28Sobers joined a rest
16:29of the world team
16:30to tour Australia.
16:32In the third match,
16:33he made 254,
16:35an innings Don Bradman
16:36described as the finest
16:37he'd ever seen.
16:39And some of the shots
16:40he played off Dennis Lilly
16:41in that game
16:42were just unbelievable.
16:44Especially the straight drives.
16:45They were just going,
16:46Dennis hadn't even followed
16:47his,
16:47got through,
16:48he's followed through
16:48and went back past him.
16:51And I remember
16:52when I was in the second inning
16:53and Australia was really on top.
16:56We needed two players
16:58to consolidate
16:58and to get runs
17:00so that we couldn't
17:01get back into the game.
17:01So I had to put my head
17:02down and back.
17:03And I went on the first over,
17:05Dennis was bowling again.
17:06And the first over,
17:07the first few balls
17:08hit the middle of the bat.
17:09And I knew that once
17:10the first few hit
17:11the middle of the bat,
17:12I knew it was going to be
17:13in for a good day.
17:14And I started to play
17:16and Dennis got more heated up
17:18and started to bowl short
17:19and short
17:20and I started to get
17:20really on top of him.
17:21I started to see the ball
17:23bigger and bigger
17:23and everything started to flow.
17:25And it was one of those days
17:27where you could do nothing wrong.
17:29And I thought
17:30it was a tremendous thing.
17:32I mean,
17:33it was just
17:33poetry in motion.
17:35This guy was,
17:36this guy was something else.
17:37I don't,
17:38I'm not so sure
17:39we'll see
17:40someone like him again.
17:42I hope we do,
17:43but it will be,
17:44and that will be some player.
17:58Sobers retired in 1974
18:00after a home series
18:02against England
18:03in which he became
18:04the first man
18:04to make 8,000 test match runs.
18:07Renowned for his relaxed
18:09enjoyment of the game,
18:10he was knighted
18:11for his services
18:12to cricket in 1975.
18:15Sir Garfield Sobers to me
18:16is the greatest
18:17all-round cricketer
18:17that's ever lived.
18:18If there's been one better,
18:20I would have loved
18:20to have seen him play.
18:22He was three cricketers
18:22rolled into one.
18:24He opened the ball
18:25in with a new ball.
18:26He could come on
18:28with his chinamen
18:29and Googlers.
18:30And he also was
18:32a brilliant fielder
18:32close to the wicket.
18:33And of course,
18:35what a great,
18:36great batsman he was.
18:38And on top of all that,
18:39he was a gentleman.
18:40He had this great gift.
18:43Not only was Sobers
18:44the greatest
18:45all-round cricketer
18:46that's ever lived,
18:47I think that he's
18:47the greatest athlete
18:48that's ever lived.
18:50Garry Sobers
18:51will get my last penny.
18:52He just didn't,
18:55money was,
18:56you know,
18:56it came and it went,
18:57you know,
18:57and he was very generous
18:59to a lot of people,
19:00and especially
19:01to myself
19:01and the younger guys
19:02who came into the leagues
19:04when he was still playing.
19:05And Saturday night
19:07was a big night.
19:08Sit down,
19:08we'd sit down,
19:09play dominoes,
19:10we'd have a meal,
19:11we drank
19:12and listened to stories
19:14again with Garry.
19:16But he was just
19:18such a generous man.
19:21Sir Garfield Sobers
19:23played in 93 test matches.
19:25He made 8,032 runs
19:28at an average of 57.78.
19:30He made 26 centuries.
19:33He took 235 wickets
19:35at an average of 34.03
19:39and took 109 catches.
19:42Well, Sir Garfield,
19:44I mean, again,
19:44what can you say?
19:45I mean,
19:47the greatest all-rounder
19:48the West Indies have ever had?
19:49Is he the greatest all-rounder
19:51that ever played?
19:52If you talk about ability,
19:54natural ability,
19:56what he did,
19:57people will say
19:58he was the best all-rounder.
19:59People you talk to
20:00is very, very sort of split.
20:03But if you talk about
20:05genuine all-rounders,
20:06he was a genuine all-rounder.
20:09And because of what he was able to do,
20:11he would bat,
20:12he could open,
20:12he would bat six.
20:14But he started off
20:15bowling left arm spin,
20:16then decided
20:17he was going to bowl
20:17left arm seam,
20:18and then decided
20:19it'd be fun to bowl
20:20left arm China
20:21when I googly.
20:22And that was the talent of the man,
20:25the awesome cricketer that he was.
20:27Sir Garfield Sobers
20:28is the best batsman I ever saw.
20:30You know,
20:30forget about all the other things
20:31he could do in cricket.
20:33Sir Garfield was
20:34a magnificent batsman.
20:36And I'm very grateful
20:38that I had the opportunity
20:39to play with him
20:41quite a bit
20:42as a very young cricketer.
20:46There is no doubt
20:48in my mind
20:49that Gary Sobers
20:51was the greatest cricketer
20:53that's ever lived.
20:55You can't do
20:56what he did
20:57with the bat
20:57and with the ball
20:59in the fast department
21:01as well as
21:02with orthodox spin
21:04and with wrist spin
21:05and then
21:06catch the ball
21:08the way he did
21:09close to the wicket
21:09and indeed
21:11in the covers
21:12and throw the ball
21:13the way he did
21:14without being
21:15an absolute genius.
21:16So for me,
21:18if you said
21:18what would you like to be,
21:19I would every day
21:21be a Gary Sobers.
21:22Share bubbling
21:23natural genius.
21:26The greatest born cricketer
21:28probably
21:28of them all.
21:31He could do anything.
21:33No argument about it.
21:34He was the greatest
21:35all-round cricketer
21:35in the world.
21:36Certainly
21:37almost a freak really
21:39that he was put here.
21:40I have a firm belief
21:42that people are put here
21:43to do certain things
21:43like Pele to play football
21:44and Mohamed Ali to box
21:46and Sobers was put here
21:47to play cricket
21:48and he played it
21:49magnificently.
21:50He was a tremendous
21:51sportsman.
21:52He enjoyed life
21:52to the fullest
21:53and yet it had no effect
21:54on his cricket.
21:55Perhaps it had
21:55a beneficial effect
21:57on his cricket.
21:58He just went out there
21:59and was very relaxed,
22:01relaxed in everything
22:02he did
22:03no matter what the situation.
22:04He could do anything
22:05on a cricket field
22:06and I haven't seen
22:08anyone since
22:09and I don't think
22:10there's anyone
22:10before him
22:11who would compare.
22:14He was exhilarating
22:15to watch.
22:16He could turn a match
22:17at any time
22:18with bat or ball
22:19or with a spectacular catch.
22:22He was an aggressive,
22:23fearless player
22:24and a daring,
22:25imaginative captain.
22:27There's never been
22:28a more complete player
22:29than Sir Garfield Sobers,
22:30a giant
22:31in the ranks
22:32of ESPN's
22:33Legends of Cricket.
22:35also in the ranks
22:41They'll be
22:41in the ranks
22:41in a bit of a
22:42the game
22:43and the game
22:43will help.
22:44As you can see,
22:45You
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