HIS ENERGY LEVELS WERE AMAZING TO BELEIVE THIS EPISODE..ONLY GARY
Lord’s 1973. Sobers, 31 not out at the end of the day, was approached by Clive Lloyd for a night out. They visited some Guyanese friends in London, and then spent time with former off-spinner Reg Scarlett in a nightclub. The drinking, interspersed with dancing, went on till it was four o’clock in the morning and the sun was starting to peep through the other end of the sky.
“I have so much liquor in my head that if I go home to the hotel and go to bed, I am not going to wake up,” Sobers confessed to Scarlett. So, as the most obvious alternative, they went to Clarendon Court for some more drinks. And after a shower, Sobers padded up and walked out to resume his innings.
He played and missed the first five balls of the first over bowled by Bob Willis. And then the sixth struck the middle of the bat. And they continued to find the middle till he was 132, when he had to retire because of a desperate need to go to the toilet.In the pavilion, he had his medicine — two glasses of port and brandy mixed together in a potent combination. And he went back to the crease to finish unbeaten on 150. At that time Sobers was past his 37th birthday.
THATS GARY SOBERS!!!
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