In 1958, Garfield Sobers, the Barbadian and West Indies all-round cricketer, batted for 10 hours against the Pakistani Test team at Sabina Park in Jamaica and broke the world Test cricket batting record with a scintillating 365 not out that confirmed his total mastery of the game of cricket. Sobers was 21 years old at the time.

What is particularly remarkable about this achievement is the ‘precociousness’ of it all. By any measure, the accomplishment of Sobers bore the mark of genius, but to achieve that remarkable feat at such a young age placed him in a most elevated category of genius.

And, of course, this was just the beginning!