The 'ultimate all-round sportsman' - Sobers could do it all

Sir Garfield Sobers, widely regarded as the finest all-rounder in the history of cricket, has died at the age of eighty-nine. As BBC Sport tells it, Sobers was rightly named one of the five leading cricketers of the twentieth century, a player remembered for being able to do it all.

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