Overview
- Cricket West Indies confirmed on Friday that Sir Garfield 'Garry' Sobers died at his home in Barbados at the age of 89, and multiple outlets reported the family as his survivors.
- Sobers played 93 Tests between 1954 and 1974, scoring 8,032 runs at an average of 57.78 and taking 235 wickets, numbers cited across reports as evidence of his all‑round mastery.
- His defining feats included an unbeaten 365 in Kingston in 1958 that stood as a Test record for decades and becoming the first batter to hit six sixes in a first‑class over in 1968.
- National boards, the ICC, county clubs and players from across generations paid tribute, calling him cricket’s benchmark all‑rounder and announcing immediate memorials and retrospectives.
- Sobers was knighted in 1975, named among Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Century, and has the ICC’s top men’s prize named for him, a legacy that underlines his lasting cultural importance across the Caribbean and world cricket.