Sunil Gavaskar

Personal information

Full name

Sunil Manohar Gavaskar

Born

10 July 1949 (age 67)
Bombay, 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, commentator

Relations

MK Mantri (uncle), RS Gavaskar (son), GR Viswanath

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 in innings	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 (born 10 July 1949) is an Indian former cricketer who played during the 1970s and 1980s for the Bombay cricket team and Indian national team. 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. He was the first person to score centuries in both innings of a Test match three times, but unlike Ricky Ponting and David Warner after him, none of his games yielded a win. He was the first Test batsman to score 10,000 Test Runs in a Career and now stands at number 12 on the group of 12 players of with 10,000 Test Runs.

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. Turbulent performances of the team led 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.

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