CRICKET, ADVANCE! BY: GARY SOBERS

FEATURES:  CRICKET, ADVANCE!   BY: GARY SOBERS

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A) CONDITION BOOK: VERY GOOD - HARD BOUND

B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: GOOD - NOT PRICE CLIPPED [$16.00] BRODART

C) FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING - PELHAM BOOKS 1965

D) NOTE: INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE TO CRICKET BY ARGUABLY THE GREATEST PLAYER EVER.  INSCRIBED BY SOBERS TO FELLOW CRICKETER - TOMMY PEIRCE. RARE THUS.  MILD FOXING THROUGHOUT. BAJAN NEWSPAPER SECTION COMMEMORATING SOBERS KNIGHTHOOD, BY QUEEN ELIZABETH II, IN BRIDGETOWN BARBADOS. LAID-IN. 
109 PAGES.

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BOOK GRADING CATEGORIES:

FINE

VERY GOOD

GOOD

FAIR

POOR
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CRICKET, ADVANCE!   BY: GARY SOBERS

Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, AO, OCC, NH (born 28 July 1936), also known as Sir Gary or Sir Garry Sobers, is a former cricketer who played for the West Indies between 1954 and 1974. A highly skilled bowler, an aggressive batsman and an excellent fielder, he is widely considered to be cricket's greatest ever all-rounder^[1] and one of the greatest cricketers of all time.^[2][3]

Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, Sobers made his first-class debut for the Barbados cricket team at the age of 16 in 1953, and his Test debut for the West Indies the following year. Originally playing mainly as a bowler, he was soon promoted up the batting order. Against Pakistan in 1958, Sobers scored his maiden Test century, progressing to 365 not out and establishing a new record for the highest individual score in an innings. His record was not broken until Brian Lara scored 375 in 1994. Sobers was made captain of the West Indies in 1965, a role which he would hold until 1972. He would also captain a Rest of the World XI during their 1970 tour of England.