G Sobers
There is a mind blowing story behind world’s arguably the greatest allrounder former West Indian cricketer Garry Sobers had an elder brother called Gerry, who sadly died in 2011. In 1964 both of them turned out for Norton, in the North Staffordshire League, and Gerry-playing as an amateur-pipped his brother, the club pro, in the batting averages.
The story goes in Barbados that when Garry was called up to play the island against the 1952-53 Indian tourists, aged only 16, the selectors actually meant to ask Gerry. “If that’s the case,” says Sir Garry, “it could have been our sister, Greta, as she is G Sobers as well…”