When a panel of 100 experts voted for Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, Don Bradman was a unanimous choice. But second, with 90 votes – 60 clear of third-placed Jack Hobbs – was Garry Sobers, the genius from Barbados who has died 11 days short of his 90th birthday.
Bradman first, Sobers second, daylight third. The only surprise was that 10 members of the panel ignored him, for Sobers was almost certainly the greatest all-round cricketer in the game’s history, scoring 8,032 Test runs at an average of nearly 58, taking 235 wickets with a mixture of left-arm
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