The Caribbean Premier League has named its Hall of Fame trophy the Sir Garry Sobers Award, in honour of the man widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time. CPL has now secured the Sobers family's support in the move.

The Sir Garry Sobers Award will be presented for the first time at the CPL Hall of Fame Gala Dinner on September 15 to Dwayne Bravo and Ian Bishop, the first inductees. 

The CPL Hall of Fame will recognise two inductees annually, one player and one off-field contributor. 

“We are enormously grateful to the Sobers family for trusting us with his name and his legacy," said CPL CEO Pete Russell.

"It gives this trophy and this Hall of Fame a weight our players will carry with real pride," he added.

                                                         Sir Garfield Sobers

Why tie up the Great Sir Gary's name in this rigged award? If there is a name who should be first in line for that award, it should be UB (Christopher Henry Gayle!) He was Mr. T20 franchise cricket!

@googley wrote:

Why tie up the Great Sir Gary's name in this rigged award? If there is a name who should be first in line for that award, it should be UB (Christopher Henry Gayle!) He was Mr. T20 franchise cricket!

Agree with you 100% Bro.

No need to tarnish the great man's name by associating him with this shits and giggles nonsense.

@SnoopDog wrote:

Agree with you 100% Bro.

No need to tarnish the great man's name by associating him with this shits and giggles nonsense.

How come you are not fighting for the real Guyanese UB?

Aubrey Bishop (full name Aubrey Francis Randolph Bishop) was a Guyanese cricketer whose actual initials were U.B.  He went on to have a legendary legal career, ultimately becoming a prominent legal scholar and serving as the Chancellor of the Judiciary in Guyana.

@sgtdjones wrote:

How come you are not fighting for the real Guyanese UB?

Aubrey Bishop (full name Aubrey Francis Randolph Bishop) was a Guyanese cricketer whose actual initials were U.B. He went on to have a legendary legal career, ultimately becoming a prominent legal scholar and serving as the Chancellor of the Judiciary in Guyana.

T20 Cricket.

@natty_forever wrote:

T20 Cricket.

natty

I stand corrected...