Full name: | Garfield St Aubrun Sobers |
Born: | 28th July 1936, Chelsea Road, Bay Land, St Michael, Barbados |
Batting: | Left-hand batter |
Bowling: | Slow left-arm wrist spin, Slow left-arm orthodox, Left-arm fast-medium |
Biography: | Appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to cricket |
Relations: | Brother: GF Sobers; Cousin: DAJ Holford |
Teams: | West Indies (Test: 1953/54-1973/74); West Indies (ODI: 1973); Barbados (Main FC: 1952/53-1973/74); South Australia (Main FC: 1961/62-1963/64); Nottinghamshire (Main ListA: 1968-1974); Nottinghamshire (Main FC: 1968-1974); Barbados (Main ListA: 1969/70-1972/73); All teams |
Indian Cricket Cricketer of the Year: 1958/59 | |
Wisden Cricketer of the Year: 1964 | |
Nottinghamshire Captain: 1968 - 1972, 1973 | |
Nottinghamshire cap: 1968 | |
The Cricket Society Wetherall Award for the Leading All-Rounder in English First-Class Cricket: 1970 | |
Nottinghamshire benefit season: 1972 | |
Walter Lawrence Trophy winner: 1974 | |
Wisden Cricketer of the Century: 2000 | |
Lists of matches and more detailed statistics | |
Articles: | Sir Gary Sobers turns 80 on Thursday : world's leading players join in celebrations |
Sobers to open World Cup | |
Sobers prefers Gupte over Warne | |
Pictures: | Sir Garry Sobers' 80th birthday celebrations |
Sir Garry Sobers receives a shirt as CPL honoured him | |
The moment when CPL honoured Sir Garry Sobers ahead of 80th birthday celebrations | |
CPL honours Sir Garry Sobers ahead of 80th birthday celebrations |
Test Career Batting and Fielding (1953/54-1973/74) | ||||||||||
M | I | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | 50 | Ct | ||
West Indies | 93 | 160 | 21 | 8032 | 365* | 57.78 | 26 | 30 | 109 |
Test Career Bowling (1953/54-1973/74) | ||||||||||
Balls | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | BB | Ave | 5wI | 10wM | SRate | Econ | |
West Indies | 21599 | 974 | 7999 | 235 | 6-73 | 34.03 | 6 | 0 | 91.91 | 2.22 |
ODI Career Batting and Fielding (1973) | |||||||||||
M | I | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | 50 | SRate | Ct | ||
West Indies | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 |
ODI Career Bowling (1973) | ||||||||||
Balls | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | BB | Ave | 4wI | 5wI | SRate | Econ | |
West Indies | 63 | 3 | 31 | 1 | 1-31 | 31.00 | 0 | 0 | 63.00 | 2.95 |
First-Class Career Batting and Fielding (1952/53-1974) | ||||||||||
M | I | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | 50 | Ct | ||
Overall | 383 | 609 | 93 | 28314 | 365* | 54.87 | 86 | 121 | 405 |
First-Class Career Bowling (1952/53-1974) | ||||||||||
Balls | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | BB | Ave | 5wI | 10wM | SRate | Econ | |
Overall | 70778 | 2894 | 28941 | 1043 | 9-49 | 27.74 | 36 | 1 | 67.86 | 2.45 |
List A Career Batting and Fielding (1963-1974) | ||||||||||
M | I | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | 50 | Ct | ||
Overall | 95 | 92 | 21 | 2721 | 116* | 38.32 | 1 | 18 | 41 |
List A Career Bowling (1963-1974) | ||||||||||
Balls | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | BB | Ave | 4wI | 5wI | SRate | Econ | |
Overall | 4423 | 122 | 2426 | 109 | 5-43 | 22.25 | 4 | 1 | 40.57 | 3.29 |