Members of the Indian cricket team, currently touring the West Indies, met the legendary Sir Garfield Sobers and shared pleasantries with one of the all-time greats of the sport here.

The team, led by Rohit Sharma, will play two Tests in Dominica and Port of Spain beginning July 12. That will be followed by three ODIs and five T20Is.

The squad is undergoing a week-long conditioning camp in Bridgetown before the players move to Dominica for the first Test. The team management chose Bridgetown over Roseau, the capital of Dominica, because the facilities there are not highly rated.

The BCCI shared a video of the meeting with the former West Indies captain, captioning it, “In Barbados & in the company of greatness. Team India meets one of the greatest of the game — Sir Garfield Sobers.”

Sobers, 86, arguably one of the finest all-rounders to have played the game, scored 8,032 runs in 93 Tests besides taking 235 wickets with his left-arm bowling.

Among those to greet Sobers, who was accompanied by his wife, were Rohit, Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, Ravichandran Ashwin and India head coach Rahul Dravid.

Kohli was, in fact, awarded the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ‘male cricketer of the decade’ in 2020.

During the brief interaction, Dravid introduced Gill as “one of our most young exciting batsmen.”

India, following the disappointment of losing the World Test Championship final to Australia last month, will begin their next WTC cycle in the West Indies. The team is expected to play a two-day warm-up game with local team, beginning Wednesday.

Written with PTI inputs