{"id":727,"date":"2024-04-11T01:04:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T01:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/?p=727"},"modified":"2024-04-11T01:04:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T01:04:28","slug":"sir-garfield-sobers-pays-tribute-to-boxing-legend-muhammad-ali-at-lords-vu-thuy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/sir-garfield-sobers-pays-tribute-to-boxing-legend-muhammad-ali-at-lords-vu-thuy\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u0456r G\u0430rf\u0456eld Sober\u0455 \u0440\u0430y\u0455 tr\u0456bute to box\u0456ng legend Muh\u0430mm\u0430d Al\u0456 \u0430t Lord&#8217;\u0455"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sir Garfield Sobers<\/strong>, one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of cricket, paid a\u00a0<strong>special tribute\u00a0<\/strong>to\u00a0<strong>Muhammad Ali<\/strong>\u00a0at Lord\u2019s on Friday, which coincided with the day of the legendary boxer\u2019s funeral. Thousands of people were expected to attend the funeral at Ali&#8217;s hometown, Louisville, to bid him adieu.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fdad3-4.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t31.18172-8\/13433250_10153830296673681_5920511678303644689_o.jpg?_nc_cat=105&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=5f2048&amp;_nc_ohc=-opTPnLFRAEAb4mfsBz&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fdad3-4.fna&amp;oh=00_AfDFbBp8bggd8X9XVaNwweHsawYkl2hDRxNB_ChdA6go6A&amp;oe=663EB209\" alt=\"Kh\u00f4ng c\u00f3 m\u00f4 t\u1ea3 \u1ea3nh.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Black and white photographs of Ali meeting Sobers in the Lord&#8217;s dressing room were projected on giant screens in the ground, during the lunch interval on the second day of the ongoing third test between England and Sri Lanka. The former West Indian cricketer rang the bell in the pavilion, five minutes before the start of the second session for the day, as a mark of respect and a\u00a0tribute to the great\u00a0Ali.<\/p>\n<p>The boxing hero had been hospitalized in Phoenix, Arizona earlier in the week due to respiratory problems. Although his condition was said to be stable, he lost his 32-year long fight to Parkinson\u2019s disease at the age of 74 on 3rd June.<\/p>\n<p>Sobers and Ali\u2019s friendship dates back to 1966, when they first met at Lord\u2019s, when Sobers was in England to play a Test match for West Indies and the heavyweight champion was in London for his second fight with Britain\u2019s Henry Cooper.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My hero since childhood. I always had a wish to meet you some day but now it will never happen. RIP &quot;The Greatest\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yj6za7GwUe\">pic.twitter.com\/Yj6za7GwUe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sachin_rt\/status\/739018011168768000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Both of them saw success that year, as Ali triumphed to victory in the sixth round, to retain his heavyweight title, and the left-handed Sobers scored 163 not out in the second innings to save his team from a defeat and drew the Test for the Windies.<\/p>\n<p>The 79-year-old batsman could also bowl in varied styles of fast-medium, orthodox spin and wrist spin and was a brilliant fielder as well. In his 20-year long cricketing career for the West Indies, from 1954 to 1974, Sobers played 93 Tests, scoring a mammoth 8032 runs and picked up 235 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>People from around the world paid their tributes to the great Muhammad Ali, here are a few tweets:<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"tweet\" data-align=\"none\" data-oembed=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobSchneider\/status\/741518229517000704\" data-resizetype=\"noresize\">\n<div>\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\" data-twitter-extracted-i1712797310624593446=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What an honor to be in Kentucky during the celebration of the life of\u00a0#MuhammadAliA world citizen.He represents the best of all of us!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Schneider (@RobSchneider)\u00a0June 11, 2016<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><label for=\"sk_embed__tweet__0\">Expand Tweet<\/label><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Brand-new app in a brand-new avatar! Download\u00a0Cric Rocket\u00a0for fast cricket scores, rocket flicks, super notifications and much more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Garfield Sobers, one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of cricket, paid a\u00a0special tribute\u00a0to\u00a0Muhammad Ali\u00a0at Lord\u2019s on Friday, which coincided with the day of the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}