In today’s time, the condition of the West Indies cricket team may be very bad, but in the past, this team has given one player to the world in cricket. There was a time when this team was feared. There are such players whose names are still recorded among the greatest players of all time. Sir Gary Sobers is one of them. Those sobers whose name is taken among the great all-rounders. Sobers showed that he is a great player at a very young age. Sobers is the first star in the world of cricket who converted his first century in Test into a triple century. Till date only three players have been able to do this and Sobers’ name is at number one. Sobers did this work on this day i.e. March 1 in the year 1958.
During that time Pakistan team was on tour of West Indies. The third match of the series was being played at Sabina Park in Kingston. In this match, Pakistan batted first and scored 328 runs. After this, whatever happened in the West Indies innings became history.
Sobers’ triple century
West Indies team started batting. Rohan Kanhai entered the field with Conrad Hunte. Conrad survived but Kanhai was out on the total score of 87 and then Sobers came on the field. When Sobers came out, the Pakistani bowlers kept sweating to get him out. But did not get success. It was just 21 years that Sobers first completed his century. This was his first century in Test. After this he completed a double century. Sobers was not going to stop. Pakistan captain Abdul Kardar had fired every arrow of his, but no one was able to uproot Sobers’ stumps. Sobers again achieved a historic milestone. He converted his first century into a triple. But more records were yet to be made. As soon as Sobers took his 365th run. He made the record of the best score in an innings of Test cricket. Earlier this record was in the name of Len Hutton of England who had scored 364 runs against Australia in 1938. It was here that West Indies declared the innings. At this time West Indies’ score was 790 runs for three wickets. Sobers hit 38 fours in this innings. Apart from Sobers, opening batsman Conrad was run out after scoring 260 runs. Clyde Walcott scored 88 not out. Pakistan collapsed for 288 runs in the second innings and West Indies won the match by 174 runs.
Record broken in 1994
For a long time, Sobers was successful in holding the record of the batsman scoring the most runs in a Test innings. But 36 years later, in 1994, Sobers’s record was broken by another great batsman from his own country. Sobers was present in Antigua to see this. This work was done by Brian Lara. Lara had played an inning of 375 runs against England. Matthew Hayden broke Lara’s record in 2003 by scoring 380 runs but Lara once again made this record in his name by scoring 400 unbeaten runs against England in April 2004 and this record has been in his name for 20 years.
