On This Day on March 01,1958 Garfield Sobers makes history at Kingston scoring 365*

On this day on March 01,1958,Playing his 17th career-Test, Garry Sobers converts his maiden Test ton into record for highest individual Test score 365*against the visiting Pakistan side, whose bowlers were treated with disdain by Sobers’ bat in the third Test of the 1957-58 series at Kingston.

Batting first, Pakistan were restricted to 328 in their first innings. Wicketkeeper-batsman Imtiaz Ahmed top-scored with 122, while Saeed Ahmed and Wallis Mathias scored half-centuries to lend some respectability to Pakistan’s total. Eric Atkinson was their tormentor-in-chief with his fifer.

 In reply, West Indies started strong with Conrad Hunte and Rohan Kanhai adding 87 for the first wicket. At the same score, Kanhai was dismissed after scoring 25 and this is precisely when Pakistan’s trouble began. Sobers joined Hunte in the middle and the two went on to add a mammoth 446 for the second wicket. This pair was separated after Hunte was dismissed for 260, but Sobers continued to punish the Pakistanis, adding more runs with ‘two of the three W’s’ — Everton Weekes and Clyde Walcott.

After toying around with the opposition bowlers, West Indies eventually declared on 790 for 3, their highest total and the fourth-highest in Test history. Sobers, who batted for 10 hours and 14 minutes and hit 38 fours during his stay in the middle, scored 365 not out and surpassed Len Hutton’s 364 against Australia in 1938.

 This was a new record which remained intact until 1994, when his fellow West Indian and a master batsman Brian Lara broke it by scoring 375 against England. Though it was later broken by Australia’s Matthew Hayden, Lara reclaimed it by scoring 400 not out