The “greatest cricketer on Earth or Mars” (as Sparrow extolled him in his 1965 calypso) passed another landmark last Thursday.
It was chronological, his 75th birthday, and it came as a timely reminder of the almost universal acceptance of the genius that made Sir Garry Sobers the finest all-rounder the game has ever known.
“Timely” and “almost” are words that would not have been necessary until just a few days earlier when the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the