The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) has joined the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of Bar­ba­dos and the in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et fra­ter­ni­ty in mourn­ing the pass­ing of crick­et leg­end Sir Garfield Sobers.

Cari­com de­scribed Sobers as a son of the Caribbean whose con­tri­bu­tion to crick­et and his im­pact be­yond the sport rep­re­sent­ed the ex­cel­lence, re­silience and pride as­so­ci­at­ed with the re­gion.

In a mes­sage of con­do­lence, Cari­com said Sobers’ bril­liance on the crick­et field, com­bined with his hu­mil­i­ty and gra­cious­ness off it, al­lowed him to tran­scend the bound­aries of sport and earn ad­mi­ra­tion across the world.