North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) chair­man Dr Tim Gopeesingh has joined the Caribbean and glob­al sport­ing com­mu­ni­ty in mourn­ing the pass­ing of crick­et leg­end Sir Garfield Sobers, de­scrib­ing him as the great­est all-round crick­eter the world has ever pro­duced.

Gopeesingh, who played crick­et for Trinidad and To­ba­go, said the sport had lost one of on­ly two play­ers who could be men­tioned along­side leg­endary bats­man Sir Don­ald Brad­man, who him­self de­scribed Sobers as “the great­est all-round crick­eter I ever saw.”

He said while Sobers’ sta­tis­tics would for­ev­er pre­serve his great­ness, in­clud­ing his un­beat­en 365 in Test crick­et, more than 8,000 Test runs, 235 wick­ets and his his­toric achieve­ment of hit­ting six six­es in an over, his im­pact ex­tend­ed be­yond num­bers.