Garfield Sobers

The only cricketer to be knighted for his services to the game while still playing, Garfield Sobers of Barbados scored 8,032 Test runs at 57.78 while also taking 235 wickets as a left-arm bowler capable of three different bowling styles -- making him the only all-round cricketer in history who might have been selected for the same team as a specialist batsman AND specialist bowler. In 1968 he hit six sixes in a single over off Malcolm Nash -- the first time it had been done in first-class cricket.