Sobers was versatile with the ball, bowling two styles of spin - left-arm orthodox and wrist spin,
but was also a fine fast-medium opening bowler.
His catching in the leg trap close to the wicket may have been equalled but never surpassed !
Sobers excelled at most athletic activities, playing golf, soccer and bastketball for Barbados :
and made his first class debut at the age of 16, appearing in Tests a year later !!
He set the Test record for an individual batsman with a mammoth 365 against Pakistan.....
He was knighted for his services to cricket in 1975.
The year Kallis was Born !
Born October 16, 1975, Pinelands, Cape Town, Cape Province , South Africa