Friday, July 17, was a sad day simply because we lost the world’s finest living cricketer — Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers.

I am proud to say Garry and I were friends. We became buddies towards the late 1960s. He was to join Lancashire who I played for from 1968, but somehow that arrangement didn’t work out and I recommended Clive Lloyd while Garry went over to Nottinghamshire.