Long before the advent of batting armor like helmets and chest pads, and before the glamour of color coordinated cricket gear, a gifted 16-year- old schoolboy named Garfield St. Aubyn Sobers in 1952, bareheaded and in basic white, emerged from a mundane district called Bayland in St. Michael, Barbados to set the cricket world on its ear.
In less than two years he rose from club cricketer for Police in Barbados Division 1 to Test cricketer for the West Indies in 1954 against England. The rest as they say, is history.
The hallmark of his storied 20-year Test career since then was his artful combination of elegance and
