West Indies Cricket announced that Garry Sobers, widely regarded as one of cricket’s greatest all-rounders, has passed away at the age of 89.
Sobers played 93 Tests and scored 8,032 runs at an average of 57.78, with 26 centuries and 30 half-centuries, between 1954 and 1974.
His knock of 365 runs not out against Pakistan in 1958 was the highest individual score in a Test innings until Brian Lara broke the record in 1994.
A left-handed batter and left-arm fast-medium bowler, Sobers claimed 235 wickets in Test cricket. He played in a solitary One Day International, taking one wicket.
He was also the first batter to hit six sixes in an over in first-class cricket, playing for Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan in 1968.
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