New Delhi, July 18 -- Sir Garfield Sobers, widely regarded as the greatest cricketer who ever lived, died on Friday in Bridgetown, Barbados, aged 89. The West Indies all-rounder played 93 Tests between 1954 and 1974, scoring 8,032 runs at 57.78, taking 235 wickets across three bowling styles, and holding 109 catches. He held the Test record of 365 not out for 36 years and became the first batsman to hit six sixes in a single over.

BRIDGETOWN - On August 31, 1968, at St Helen's ground in Swansea, a 31-year-old from Barbados walked to the crease for Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan and hit every ball of Malcolm Nash's over out of the ground. Six deliveries. Six sixes. The crowd stood momentarily uncertain, as if the arithmetic was still s...