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Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (Marathi pronunciation: [suniːl ɡaːʋəskəɾ]; born 10 July 1949), is a former captain of the Indian national cricket team who represented India and Mumbai from 1971 to 1987. [2]
Sunil Gavaskar is a former international cricketer who represented and captained the Indian cricket team. In a career spanning over 16 years he made 35 centuries (100 or more runs) at the international level. [2] Described as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history, [3] [4] Gavaskar played 125 Test matches and scored 10,122 runs. [3]
The Indian Sunil Gavaskar's innings of 220, made against the West Indies in 1971, remains the highest individual score at the Queen's Park Oval. Sunil Gavaskar is also the only overseas player to have scored four Test centuries at the ground, the others are Everton Weekes, Rohan Kanhai and Alvin Kallicharran. Everton Weekes's 207, made against ...
Imran Khan and Wasim Akram's partnership of 112 runs in Pakistan's first innings was the country's record for the eighth wicket against India. [2] Krishnamachari Srikkanth and Sunil Gavaskar's (Ind) partnership of 200 runs in their first innings was the highest for the first wicket against Pakistan by any country. [2] 5 February was a rest day
Sunil Gavaskar: Mumbai: Bengal: 1981/82 338 ... Sunil Joshi: Karnataka: 1992/93 – 2010/11 ... Best bowling figures in an innings. Score Player Team Opponent Season
In response, Sunil Gavaskar batted through the entire innings for only 36 runs in which Gulabrai Ramchand thought that he was doing some batting practice. [23] Australia opened their campaign with a win against Pakistan at Headingley with a 73-run victory.
They bowled England out for only 101 in the second innings with Bhagwat Chandrasekhar claiming 6–38. [1] The Indian team was captained by Ajit Wadekar. Besides Wadekar and Chandrasekhar, the team included other notable players in Dilip Sardesai, Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, Gundappa Viswanath, Bishan Singh Bedi and the young Sunil Gavaskar.
Sunil Gavaskar, the Indian opener played 106 consecutive Test matches, is fourth. The recently retired New Zealand wicket-keeper-batsman Brendon McCullum , who is fifth on the list with 101 matches, is the highest ranked cricketer who never missed a Test match during his playing career.