SUNIL GAVASKAR
Name: Sunil Gavaskar
Born: 10 July 1949
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (born July 10, 1949 in Mumbai, Maharashtra),
nicknamed Sunny, was a cricket player
during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. Widely regarded as one of the
greatest opening batsmen in the Indian Test history, Gavaskar set world records
during his career for the most runs and most centuries scored by any batsman. He
held the record of 34 Test centuries for almost two decades before it was broken
by Sachin Tendulkar in December 2005. He was widely admired for his technique
against fast bowling, with a particularly high average of 65.45 against the West
Indies, who possessed a four-pronged fast bowling attack regarded as the most
vicious in Test history. His captaincy of the Indian team, however, was less
successful. The team at one stage went 31 Test matches without a victory. There
were incidents like crowd displeasure at Eden Gardens in Calcutta leading to
multiple matches being disrupted, in response to the poor performance of the
Indian team. Turbulent performances of the team lead to multiple exchanges of
captaincy between Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, with one of Gavaskar's sackings coming
just six months before Kapil led India to victory at the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
Name: Sunil Gavaskar
Born: 10 July 1949
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (born July 10, 1949 in Mumbai, Maharashtra),
nicknamed Sunny, was a cricket player
during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. Widely regarded as one of the
greatest opening batsmen in the Indian Test history, Gavaskar set world records
during his career for the most runs and most centuries scored by any batsman. He
held the record of 34 Test centuries for almost two decades before it was broken
by Sachin Tendulkar in December 2005. He was widely admired for his technique
against fast bowling, with a particularly high average of 65.45 against the West
Indies, who possessed a four-pronged fast bowling attack regarded as the most
vicious in Test history. His captaincy of the Indian team, however, was less
successful. The team at one stage went 31 Test matches without a victory. There
were incidents like crowd displeasure at Eden Gardens in Calcutta leading to
multiple matches being disrupted, in response to the poor performance of the
Indian team. Turbulent performances of the team lead to multiple exchanges of
captaincy between Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, with one of Gavaskar's sackings coming
just six months before Kapil led India to victory at the 1983 Cricket World Cup.