By Phil Walker
Sir Garfield Sobers arrived in England within the spring of 1966 because the best cricketer on the earth. He departed that autumn having laid claims to being the best of all time.
Garfield Sobers made 5 excursions to England, loved 4 of them, and dominated one.
Underneath Frank Worrell in 1963, Sobers had been amongst a solid checklist that will ship a traditional sequence towards a backdrop of “good humour and relentless banter” (Wisden) between units of supporters curious to find the frequent floor they shared.
Echoing the epochal 1950 sequence, the West Indies gained it 3-1, with Sobers taki…
