“There was never any certainty about the last ball. Indeed, the vast weight of cricket history, accumulated in so many dusty volumes, now bore down on Sobers, to say: ‘It won’t happen.’ The story of so many matches, where so many thousands of batsmen have played out so many thousands, even millions, of overs. The… Continue reading
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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 →