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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] Gavaskar is acknowledged as one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time.
The members of the 1983 squad, Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and Madan Lal praised the team after watching the premiere of the film. Gavaskar said that "It is simply brilliant and the way every actor has got the mannerisms, the walk, the look, the style of every player was unbelievably uncanny. Full marks to Kabir Khan and his team for their ...
The Indians got off to a good start batting first, with Sunil Gavaskar and Ashok Mankad putting together 47 runs for the first wicket. Left-arm spinner Elquemedo Willett bowled out Mankad before lunch, with Ed Arthurton bowling a hostile spell of seam bowling after, to dismiss the Indians' middle-order that included wickets of M. L. Jaisimha and Salim Durani.
There were various other highlights in these series. In the 5th Test, the crowds upset with India's poor performance blamed Sunil Gavaskar and he was pelted with stones and rotten fruits. [10] The first ODI of this series played at Srinagar was the first ever international match played there.
Bishen Singh Bedi: 1975–78 4 1 3 0 0 25.00 4 Sunil Gavaskar: 1980–85 37 14 21 0 2 37.83 5 Gundappa Viswanath: 1980 1 0 1 0 0 0.00 6 Kapil Dev: 1982–92 74 39 33 0 2 52.70 7 Syed Kirmani: 1983 1 0 1 0 0 0.00 8 Mohinder Amarnath: 1984 1 0 0 0 1 0.00 9 Ravi Shastri: 1986–91 11 4 7 0 0 36.36 10 Dilip Vengsarkar: 1987–88 18 8 10 0 0 44.44 11
Maninder Singh (Ind) made his Test debut, the youngest for India at the time. 6 January was a rest day. Zaheer Abbas became the first Pakistan batsman to score centuries in three successive innings. Imran Khan became the first Pakistan bowler to pick 200 wickets.
Sunil Gavaskar 78 Bob Willis 2/42 (18 overs) Match drawn Headingley, Leeds Umpires: HD Bird, BJ Meyer. England won the toss and decided to bat; Fourth Test.
Cricketer Sunil Gavaskar (awarded in 1980) is widely considered one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time. He is the first batsman to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket . [ 10 ] In a career spanning over sixty years, filmmaker Richard Attenborough (awarded in 1983) is best known for his eight Academy Award -winning film Gandhi (1983) and ...