Sunil Gavaskar Birthday: The most special thing related to the life of Gavaskar, India’s first batting hero, 76

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The new captain of Team India, Shubman Gill, is raining fiercely in England these days. It is never easy to score runs in a Test series on foreign land, but in the last few decades, every time an Indian cricketer has come, who made it possible. Before Gill, Virat Kohli was doing this wonders and before him Sachin Tendulkar. But it was truly started by ‘Little Master’ and India’s first world class batsman Sunil Gavaskar.

Gavaskar, who inspired the generations of successful batsmen in Indian cricket, has turned 76 on July 10. Although Indian fans know a lot about Gavaskar, who have made the record of most runs and centuries in world cricket, but not every little thing, not every fan knows and 76 special facts related to them tell you here-

1. Sunil Gavaskar was born on 10 July 1949 in a middle -class Marathi family in Mumbai. But his family could have been completely different, if the mistake made in the hospital at birth is not caught.
2. Gavaskar had revealed that in the hospital where he was born, a fisherman accidentally took him as his child. But as soon as his maternal uncle saw the other child, he understood that he is not Sunil and then the matter was resolved.
3. His father’s name was Manohar Gavaskar, who was a club cricketer. Therefore, his full name is written Sunil Manohar Gavaskar.
4. Sunil Gavaskar’s maternal uncle, Madhav Mantri, was a former Indian Test wicketkeeper, who played 4 Test matches for India.
5. Gavaskar never wanted to become a cricketer but his first love was wrestling. He grew up and wanted to become a wrestler and was a fan of Wrestler Maruti Wadar.
6. But he was very inspired by the jersey of his maternal uncle Madhav Mantri and then cricket became his life.
7. This is the reason that Gavaskar’s studies were also held at St. Xavier’s High School in Mumbai, which has been famous for years of its cricket traditions.
8. From a young age, he got used to becoming the best cricketer. That is why in 1966, in school cricket, he scored 246 (Not Out), 222 and 85 runs and was elected the best schoolboy cricketer in the country.
9. Before becoming the world’s best batsman, he showed power in domestic cricket and made his first class cricket debut for Wazir Sultan Colts XI in 1966-67.
10. Then 5 years later, on 6 March 1971, I got a chance to wear Team India jersey and made a Test debut against the West Indies in Port of Spain.
11. In that series itself, Gavaskar gave 774 runs against the West Indies, which is the highest run record of the most run in the debut series and still remains.
12. Not only this, these 774 runs are also the most runs scored by any batsman of India in a Test series.
13. With the help of his performance, India won its first Test series against the West Indies in 1971.
14. Gavaskar played a total of 125 Test matches in his Test career. He was the first cricketer in India to play 100 Test matches.
15. Right -handed batsman Gavaskar was the first batsman to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. He set this record in 1987. He had a total of 10,122 runs in his name.
16. He completed 10,000 Test runs against Pakistan in 1987 at Sardar Patel Motra Stadium in Ahmedabad.
17. Not only runs, but his name was also the highest 34 Test centuries, the record was broken by Sachin Tendulkar in 2005 after about 18 years.
18. Gavaskar scored 13 Test centuries against the West Indies, which is the highest century of an Indian batsman against a team.
19. Gavaskar scored 236 (unbeaten) runs against West Indies in Chennai in 1983, which is his biggest Test score.
20. In 1977-78 against Australia, Gavaskar scored three consecutive Test centuries.
21. Gavaskar scored 221 runs against England in 1979 at the Oval ground in London and was the first Indian to do so.
22. In his debut series of 1971, Gavaskar scored 220 runs in Port of Spain, which is still the highest score of an Indian there.
23. Gavaskar scored a century in both innings of a Test three times, which is an Indian record.
24. He captained India in 47 Tests, but was able to win only 9, while 8 were defeated. There were 30 draws there.
25. Gavaskar was part of the Indian team that won the 1983 World Cup, but his performance in ODI was average and only 1 century was scored in his entire career.
26. Gavaskar scored the only ODI century against New Zealand, which came in the 1987 World Cup and then was India’s fastest century in the tournament.
27. More than his century, Gavaskar is known for his slowest innings in ODI cricket. In the 1975 World Cup, 36* runs in 174 balls against England.
28. Out of his 125 Tests, Gavaskar played 106 matches continuously, which was the world record at that time.
29. The great Indian batsman scored more than 1000 Test runs in a calendar year 4 times in his career (1976, 1978, 1979, 1983).
30. Despite scoring a record 34 centuries in the entire career, Gavaskar could never score a Test century in Lord’s.
31. He first equaled the world record of Sir Don Bradman with 29 Test centuries in 1983 and then broke it.
32. Gavaskar batting in most careers without a helmet and faced many deadly fast bowlers. Only in the last years used the scull-cap.
33. Despite a great career, Gavaskar was dismissed without opening an account on the first ball thrice in Test cricket.
34. Gavaskar retired from ODI cricket in 1987 and then with the end of the World Cup and then made a successful career in commentary.