BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AFP) — Prime Minister Mia Mottley has announced that Barbados will observe a national day of mourning in honour of cricket legend Sir Garfield Sobers.

Sobers would have been 90 on July 28.

In a video statement confirming the death of the Bajan National Hero, Mottley said: “Across Barbados and across the world we hold him with gratitude, with reverence and with a tender sorrow that comes when the people have to say farewell to one of their greatest sons.”