{"id":807446,"date":"2026-07-18T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807446\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:44:08","slug":"saca-saddened-by-the-passing-of-sir-garfield-sobers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807446\/","title":{"rendered":"SACA Saddened by the Passing of Sir Garfield Sobers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South Australia Cricket Association is saddened by the passing of West Indies cricket legend Sir Garfield Sobers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers in the history of the game, Sir Garfield represented South Australia from 1961 to 1964 and played a pivotal role in the team\u2019s 1963\u201364 Sheffield Shield triumph.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In that title-winning season, Sobers dominated with both bat and ball, finishing as the competition\u2019s leading run-scorer with 973 runs and wicket-taker with 47 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The South Australia Cricket Association extends its deepest condolences to Sir Garfield\u2019s family, friends, former teammates and the wider cricket community.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South Australia Cricket Association is saddened by the passing of West Indies cricket legend Sir Garfield Sobers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-807446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}