**Collie Smith’s wait came to the End **
●[ My Tribute (informal) On the passing away of Garry Sobers,the greatest all-rounder of Test Cricket World and a gentleman, from this world after grand age of 89 ]●
Ah ,alas !
Life is like the Test cricket
Why, because it is tested at each stage
Though, alas, only for five days
While the life is timeless test
Resulted but in unresulted way
And the mixture of sweetness and bitterness
In the game of Test cricket two innings
But in the real life ah one innings
Games,sports ,service ,business
Yes, person has to retire, once or while
Sometime under norms
Sometimes to have other issues
But a household never retires
Is it atrocity on them ?
Perhaps no ,nay,never
Why, because it’s their fondness and nature
In their blood and stout character
And that’s why the axis of family
After being the mother in law yes they get bit relax
But in the indian cult
Here Garry Sobers ,the greatest all-rounder of Test arena
He retired at his peak at almost thirty eight
His career spanned for twenty years thoroughly
And with height and bright,
celebration
He played 93 Tests and life’s 89
In Test cricket innings but in life only Test and test
He scored 8032 highest the then overcame Don the greatest
His scintillating and blazing career wow
Awarded him the title Sir by the UK regime
And adjudged as the greatest all time allrounder of the century
Yeah, by critics and Wisden
And cricket fraternity also stamped all unanimously by their hearty nod
His achievements are ample most
His 226 run Test score versus England in England wow
His flamboyant 254 innings in WST against mighty Australia wow
Yes ,applauded by Don
Yeah ,the God of batting and lone legend
In the worthiest stats ,seem of other world
The Don witnessed that with bare eyes
And showered his genuine praise
In the first innings he was trapped by fiery Dennis Lillee
And sledged by Lillee,the Menace as bloody bastard
Threaten to blast Sobers by his lethal bouncers
But GarryvSobers calmly reacted
O maan ,you have ball ,I have bat
And sent pavilion on naught
But in the second innings he showed his mettle and class
And shut down. arrogant Dennis Lillee,the Flem
And taught lesson to the Aussie moustache
In that innings he destroyed fiery Dennis Lillee and company
And was also praised by the bowling attack
Yeah ,well played Garry,the King Cricket
He was selected as the bowler for the West Indies
But promoted as batsman seeing his capabilities
And after 18 innings all long wow hit not single ,double but triple
Yeah, marathon audacious 365 not out against Pakistan
Yes, by this he left Lan Hutton behind
One of the greatest all time batters of England and the world Test cricket
And that individual score record reigned for 36 years
And that was broken by his soil younker dashing BC Lara
He left this world certainly ,like any one not by will
Anyone has to go by system of nature and Almighty
He lived long 89 years
So can say timely not untimely
Though in life concern the man is lured to live more and more
But loss is loss all irreapable
But ,alas, his team mate the then of 1959
Yeah, in England soil
And the trio was rode in the car
The steering was in the hands of Garfield Sobers
With his closest Collie Smith and one other
Sobers was the pilot of the plane
I said this in literal sense
And that was sparkling London’s midnight
Where ‘Days and Nights’ are same as Mumbai,Paris,Tokyo,Newyork
London one of the largest cities and so modified
And the dream of billions
Ah, that shining road lured Sobers to drive fast
He got careless or what
Ah, snatched the life of his sleeping friend Collie Smith
Who was on the rear seat fractured from critical organs
Ah struggled for three days
And alas, the prayer hadn’t been listened
Yes,of Collins’ fast pal and pals and Caribbeans and cricket fraternity
Ah,it was one of the saddest lost
Yeah, a great talent equalled to Garry as allrounder
The then of his stats reveal it clearly
That blow shocked Gary severely
Whose fault at that midnight
The cricket guys were to play a charity tie
But it was headlights of the cattle carrier
And overtaking headlight flash of other vehicle
And here Sobers was in sporting mood in speed
The flash dazzled his eyes and
Ah imbalance and collided
For that offense ah cricketer punished by the law by penalty
Allegation was careless driving
That phase made Sobers so sincere and serious
He focussed on his game to mind
Yes he has to play with two personas
One himself and other the shadow of pious soul of his compatriot
And he handled that double role with passion
In this concern Don the greatest said
He was mixture if five skills
Yes ,marvelous batter
Specific orthodox spin ,medium pace ,china man
And genuine speedster and close in fielder inherited likes his land’s greats
Yeah ,Wesley Hall and Charlie Griffith
Yeah Hermon Griffith and Roy Gilchrist wow
He showed great performance in county cricket
Yeah in FC, Sheffield Shield
In the Test wow 26 hundreds, second highest the then after Don
And when in the county action
Wow he made puppet to MA Nash
Yeah ,when he hit out six consecutive sixes in an over in a row
Yeah ,the first ever in the cricket history
His fabulous game wow won an Australian beauty
She became fan and mistress and bonded in marriage with him
And wow Miss India beauty Anju Mahendra
A bollywood actress
Whom he engaged
But he missed that maiden
But his successor, a playboy Vivian Richards , Smokin
Yes, not missed and Neena Gupta madden to him with great devotion, love or cupidity
Because Viv was an Othelo,the mighty commander
Yeah, bold and famous cricketer
Sports and games heroes have gravity
Yes ,to attract celebrities
See Virat Kohli whom Anushka,the famous bollywood actress lost heart
And yeah be the life partner of him
Already married Azhar attracted Sangeeta Bijlani,Ms India ,model and
an bollywood actress
Bishan Bedi,Shikhar Dhawan,Hardik Pandya ,Yuvraj Singh are sons- in- law of other nations
Mike Brearley ,Glenn
Maxwell are sons- in- law of India
And wow Neena’s bold decision gave birth to a baby Masaba without marriage
Totally shrewd and indigested to see the Indian conservative rite
At the age 89 Sobers seemed so crushed ,dried ,wrinkled ,thin ,weak
His first wife relinquished him why knew he and she only
But to proceed life bonded with a Caribbean beauty
She accompanied him since his last sigh
Sobers has gone only by body
He was a retired cricketer
And for the active and action cricket he was died in 1974
So he was only a live corpse for cricket world
But yes he did a lot to develop cricket in his state Barbados
He passed away lived life fully
With all ease,comfort and luxury
And yeah with great state and global respect
His demised day 17 of July but –
The Barbados state government fixed his cremation date 25
The government declare mourning on behalf of his death day
And also the state mourning day on 25th July ,2026
In his great honour the state decided to keep nation flag half bend
This shows what height Sobers had in his state.
And last rite yes on 25 th July,2026
his pious remains earthened
He is and will immortal in the cricket world
His stats would echo and will speak ever
And what special about this demise
Yes ,after 67 years both friends will meet in heaven
Collie Smith will hail him at the door of Eden
He will say, I saw your all feat live
When I left the world on God ‘s will
It was you but only bearer
It was my ill destiny
I left you as a great prodigy
And you kept that legacy throughout the career
And I am so glad that –
I am meeting with a greatest allrounder of the game
I am so proud on you my friend
God will apologise
when Sudama Krishna meet
Yes,by saying mr Smith you had to await a long
But make you great I stayed there long
And you know when Garry is minded Collie saga strikes at once .
But okay ,enjoy My World
Here nothing is mortal ,all is eternal
As cricket lover and I am a southpaw in batting
He too was lefty so big fan of him
My heartiest obituary to him and his close ones
Oh Gosh is great but alas
In death not
Though democratic with all
For it God thanks
Otherwise the rich would feel proud .
*NK Sanatan
