How Garfield Sobers beat cricket’s ultimate record. Extract 2. This is the second of a number of extracts I shall be publishing in August in the lead up to the 50th anniversary of the day, Saturday, August 30, when Garfield Sobers became the first player in the history of cricket to hit every ball of… Continue reading
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How Garfield Sobers beat cricket’s ultimate record. Extract 1
This is the first of a number of extracts I shall be publishing in August in the lead up to the 50th anniversary of the day, Saturday, August 30, when Garfield Sobers became the first player in the history of cricket to hit every ball of an over for six. It’s taken from my e-book Sobers six… Continue reading →
Garfield Sobers – Swansea’s six sixes perfection remembered
Sir Garfield Sobers, former cricketer, was 80 in 2016 This is an essay, based on my e-book Sobers six hit perfection at Swansea: That was the Day Available on Amazon Long before the days of the furious, frantic thrash of 20 20 Cricket, when the game proceeded at a gentle rhythm, the draw was a standard… Continue reading →
In cricket Wales becomes England as Ashes clash comes to Cardiff
Let no one doubt the cricketing fervour of the Welsh, least of all the Australians, as they gather in Cardiff today for the first Test Match in the 2015 Ashes series. When Glamorgan beat the Australians in Swansea in 1964, and it was the only the second time the tourists had been defeated by a… Continue reading →