Greig’s death has come as a shock

Sir Garfield Sobers

Sir Garry Sobers on Saturday described Tony Greig, who died of a heart attack in Sydney, Australia, aged 66, as “the kind of cricketer you would always want in your team.”

All-rounder Greig, a former England captain and one of the movers behind the formation of Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket in 1977, was in the World team under Sobers against Australia