Sunil Gavaskar

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Sunil Gavaskar

Personal information
Full name	Sunil Manohar Gavaskar
Born	10 July 1949 (age 62) Bombay, Bombay State (now Mumbai, Maharashtra), India
Nickname	Sunny, Little Master
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Batting style	Right-hand batsman
Bowling style	Right-arm medium
Role	Opening batsman
Relations	MK Mantri (uncle), RS Gavaskar(son), GR Viswanath (brother-in-law)
International information
National side	India
Test debut(cap 128)	6 March 1971 v West Indies
Last Test	13 March 1987 v Pakistan
ODI debut(cap 4)	13 July 1974 v England
Last ODI	5 November 1987 v England
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1967/68–1986/87	Bombay
1980	Somerset
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	125	108	348	151
Runs scored	10122	3092	25834	4594
Batting average	51.12	35.13	51.46	36.17
100s/50s	34/45	1/27	81/105	5/37
Top score	236*	103*	340	123
Balls bowled	380	20	1953	108
Wickets	1	1	22	2
Bowling average	206.00	25.00	56.36	40.50
5 wickets ininnings	0	0	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	1/34	1/10	3/43	1/10
Catches/stumpings	108/–	22/–	293/–	37/–
Source: CricketArchive, 5 September 2008

Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar  pronunciation (help·info) (Marathi: सुनील मनोहर गावसकर) (born 10 July 1949) is a former cricketer who played during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history, Gavaskar set world records during his career for the most Test runs and most Test 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.

Gavaskar 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 Gardensin Calcutta leading to multiple matches being disrupted, in response to the poor performance of the Indian team. Turbulent performances of the team led to multiple exchanges of captaincy between Gavaskar andKapil Dev, with one of Gavaskar's sackings coming just six months before Kapil led India to victory at the1983 Cricket World Cup.

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