At the end of the 1960s, Garry Sobers became the highest profile beneficiary of English cricket’s decision to rid itself of the qualification rule about hiring overseas glamour. He picked Nottinghamshire, a side mediocre for so long that it was stranded on the margins of the Championship. In that first memorable summer Sobers so successfully sparked the revival of a moribund club that it acquired the sobriquet ‘Sobers-shire’. Duncan Hamilton fell in love with cricket because he first fell in love with Sobers. He counts himself as ‘blessed’ to have lived only a shilling bus ride from Trent Bridge during the years Sobers played there. ‘The Man Who Walked Out of the Sun’ is both Hamilton’s remembrance of those times and a study of Sobers’ career, tracking the rise and dominance of the world’s first ‘jet age’ cricketer.