The Spin | Garry Sobers and the risky declaration that enlivened a dour series

England’s 1968 tour of West Indies contained incident aplenty off the field but turgid cricket on it, until a gamble that failedThere can’t be many Tests with such an unexpected twist as that between England and West Indies in Port of Spain, 52 years ago this week. Here’s Bruce Barber in the Guardian at the end of day three, under the headline “A disgrace to the name of cricket”: “In the mid-afternoon hours the only critical problem was to decide whether the b