India, July 17 -- For a cricket fan, there can't be a worse piece of news than the passing of one of the greatest of all time. Not just one of the greatest, probably the greatest of all time. Born on July 28, 1936 in Barbados, Sir Garry Sobers is no more, just days ahead of his 90th birthday he breathed his last on Friday.

Cricket history can't be discussed without him. And without Don Bradman. They didn't play against each other though. Bradman belonged to the era before Sobers'. Before the great West Indian, there was a huge consensus that the Aussie was the best cricketer in history until then. But the arrival of Sobers diluted that perception quite a bit. Because, unlike Bradman, Sobers could also bowl and on top of that, bowl in man...