How Gary Sobers got his last Test hundred

January 23, 2012 13:18

Whenever cricketers perform badly on the field it is promptly blamed on their partying ways, and we in India have any number of examples of this. But does partying through the night have to affect one's game the next day?

Here's the example of the legendary Gary Sobers who was known for partying through the night and yet turning up bright as a daisy on the field the next morning.

His 26th and final Test hundred came in Lord's in 1973, an innings that John Arlott described in the Guardian newspaper had "all the panache in attack and style in defence which makes him as handsome a batsman as we have ever seen' the splendour of his innings lay in the arc between cover point and mid-off".

But what really happened the previous night? Click here to find out. Oh, and by the way, this is not to be taken an endorsement of a wild life; to each his own, we say.

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