Sir Garry returns to Wales

THE FIRST batsman in history to score 36 from a single over, six consecutive sixes, is returning to Wales where he achieved the landmark moment.

August 2008 is the 40th anniversary of Sir Garfield Sobers’s record score from an over and on June 16 he will be the guest of honour in Cardiff for a celebration dinner.

Sir Garry struck Malcolm Nash – who, with a declaration looming, was experimenting with left-arm spin – for 36 in an over during Nottinghamshire's first innings against Glamorgan in their County Championship match at Swansea in 1968.

The dinner, to be held at the National Cricket Centre, Riverside, has been organised as a fund-raising event by the Cardiff Institute for the Blind.

More than 500 guests will re-live Sir Garry's remarkable feats including his record Test match score of 365 not out in a single innings for the West Indies against Pakistan in the 1957–58 season, a record that stood until 1994.

All but two of the Glamorgan team from the 1968 match will be present and organiser Richard Evans hopes to raise more than £25,000 for the Institute.

He said: “It is an unbelievable coup for us. It came out of the blue from a mutual contact. Sir Garry is 72, he’ll be in the UK for four weeks and this is the only event he will be attending in Wales.

“It will be a very special evening and diners will have the chance to win a bat signed and presented by Sir Garry.”

Tickets are on sale now. For further information contact Richard Evans on richard@cibi.co.uk or 07850 129272.