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Barbadian cricketer Garfield Sobers dies at the age of 89. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a computer. Barbadian cricketer Garfield
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  Sobers dies at the age of eighty nine. Sir Garfield
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  Street Auburn Sobers, also known as Sir Gary or Sir
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  Gary Sobers or just Gary Sobers, was a Barbadian cricketer
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  who played for the West Indies between nineteen fifty four
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  and nineteen seventy four. A highly skilled and aggressive batsman,
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  a versatile bowler and an excellent fielder, he is widely
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  considered to be cricket's greatest ever all rounder and one
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  of the greatest cricketers of all time. Born in Bridgetown, Barbados,
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  Sobers made his first class debut for the Barbados cricket
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  team at the age of sixteen and nineteen fifty three,
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  and his Test debut for the West Indies the following year.
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  Originally playing mainly as a bowler, he was soon promoted
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  up the batting order. Against Pakistan in nineteen fifty eight,
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  Sobers scored his maiden Test century, progressing to three hundred
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  sixty five not out and setting a new record for
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  the highest individual score in an innings. The records stood
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  until Brian Lara scored three hundred seventy five in nineteen
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  ninety four. Sobers was made captain of the West Indies
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  in nineteen sixty five, a role he held until nineteen
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  seventy two. He also captained the Rest of the World
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  eleven during their nineteen seventy tour of England. Overall, Sobers
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  played ninety three Tests for the West Indies, scoring eight
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  thousand thirty two runs at an average of fifty seven
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  point seven eight and taking two hundred thirty five wickets
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  at an average of thirty four point zero three. He
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  has the fifth highest batting average in Test cricket among
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  players with more than five thousand runs. In his three
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  hundred eighty three first class matches, he scored over twenty
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  eight thousand runs and took over one thousand wickets. Having
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  spent time with South Australia in Nottinghamshire towards the end
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  of his career, Sobers was knighted by Queen Elizabeth the
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  Second in nineteen seventy five for his services to cricket.
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  He became a dual Barbadian Australian citizen through marriage in
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  nineteen eighty By an act of Parliament in nineteen ninety eight,
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  Sobers was named as one of the eleven National Heroes
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  of Barbados. In two thousand and nine, he was inducted
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  into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. That's it for now.
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