Garfield St Auburn Sobers played his final innings at the Kensington Oval, Barbados, yesterday under bright sunshine for nearly three hours, still able to mesmerise local, regional and international spectators, most of whom including Britain’s King Charles acknowledging that there have been few, “whose name alone brings a smile to people’s faces across Barbados, the Caribbean and the entire Commonwealth”.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who in her “grateful from the nation” tribute at the State Service of Thanksgiving, said the visit to the Kensington Oval, this most iconic of cricket grounds where Sir Garry’s casket was draped with the national flag of Barbados, “is to pay tribute, but also to send a message to the future”.
