Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, born 10th July 1949, is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer who represented India and Bombay from 1971 to 1987. Gavaskar is considered one of the greatest opening hitters of all time.
Gavaskar has been widely praised for his technique against fast bowling and is believed to be the most vicious in the history of the Test. Most of Gavaskar’s centuries against the West Indies were played against the second-tier side when an attack from four flanks needed to play together. However, his captaincy of the Indian team was noted as less successful, even though the team won the 1985 Benson and Hedges cricket world championship. A tumultuous performance by the group saw several captaincy changes between Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, including one of Gavaskar’s dismissals just six months before Kapil led India to victory in the 1983 Cricket World Cup. bottom. He is also a former Sheriff of Mumbai.
Gavaskar is a recipient of the Arjuna Award of Indian Sports Honors and the Padma Bhushan Citizens of Honor Award. He was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2009. In 2012, he won the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for his Indian cricket.
Born into a middle-class Marathi family in Mumbai, young Sunilgavaskar was a student at St. . In his final year of secondary school, he scored 246, 222, and 85 points in school cricket before battling his century against a traveling London schoolboy. He made his first-class debut in Vasil Sultan Colt’s XI against Dungarpur XI in 1966–67 but remained in Bombay’s Ranji Trophy team for the next two years without playing a match. St. Xaviers of Bombay, who graduated from his college, made his debut against Karnataka in the 1968–69 season but made a duck and his choice was his uncle Madhav of his Mantri (ex-Indian Test). It has been the subject of derisive claims that it is due to its existence. He responded with 114 against Rajasthan in his second match and, for the second consecutive century, he was selected to tour the West Indies with the 1970–1971 Indian squad.
Gavaskar was also a good slip fielder and sure catches in the slip made him the first Indian to score more than 100 catches in a Test match. In his ODI against Pakistan at Sharjah in 1985, he made four catches and helped India defend a total of 125. Early in his Test career, when India rarely used pace bowlers, Gavaskar occasionally opened bowling briefly.
