Gareth Huw Davies
Gareth Huw Davies is an award winning journalist specialising in travel, the environment and government. He is a feature writer for a number of national papers and magazines including the Radio Times (12 years), currently and now principally the Sunday Times (30 years) and the Mail on Sunday (18 years).
He has written two books. A Walk along the Thames Path, published by Michael Joseph in 1990 - which combined travel writing with his interest in walking and the countryside – and England’s Glory - commissioned by the Council for the Protection of Rural England to accompany photographs of threatened landscapes by leading British photographers, including Lord Snowdon, Patrick Lichfield and Linda McCartney. It was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1987.
He lives in the Chilterns north of London with his wife.
Books by Gareth Huw Davies
Six Sixes
On September 1st 1968 West Indies cricketer Garry Sobers became the first player in the one hundred and fifty year history of the sport to hit every ball of an over for six. And I was there.
As a sporting event, it might be said to stand with Bannister breaking the four minute barrier, but it has never received the coverage or treatment of that famous day in Oxford.
Six sixes in one over is a statement of perfection, which followers of any sport will recognise. Put in a wider sporting perspective, it could be measured alongside other ultimate scores, or clean sweeps; such as Frankie Dettori winning all seven races at one meeting, on September 28, 1996 at Ascot; or the perfect break of 147 in snooker, from Cliff Thorburn to Ronnie O’Sullivan; the perfect solo goal in football where a player evades tackle after tackle (one thinks of Maradona’s goal against England in ’86). The longest jumps or throws in athletics. And “The Try”, that magical team effort scored by the Barbarians against New Zealand in 1973. I was there too.
But as an achievement the six sixes still retains a completeness of its own. I prefer a geographical analogy—the first European to see the Pacific after crossing America; or even an interplanetary one—the first man on the moon?
Six Sixes is the definitive account of one of sport’s greatest moments.
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