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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]
2 January 1959 (Age 24) Right-hand Right-arm off-spinner Delhi: Roger Binny: 19 July 1955 (Age 28) Right-hand Right-arm fast-medium Karnataka: Sunil Gavaskar: 10 July 1949 (Age 34) Right hand Right arm medium Right arm offbreak: Mumbai: Syed Kirmani 29 December 1949 (Age 34) Right-handed Wicket-keeper Karnataka: Madan Lal: 20 March 1951 (Age 32 ...
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]
Rohan Sunil Gavaskar pronunciation ⓘ (born 20 February 1976) is a former Indian cricketer. He played in 11 One Day Internationals . [ 1 ] He was a middle-order left-handed batsman and an occasional slow left arm orthodox bowler.
[8] `The second player to reach the milestone was India's Sunil Gavaskar, who did it in April 1971 at Queen's Park Oval, against the West Indies . At the age of 21, he made scores of 124 and 220 in the first and third innings respectively, [9] becoming the youngest player to set the record. [10]
Sunil Gavaskar was the first player to cross the 10,000 run mark in Tests. Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. In the chase to achieve top scores, West Indian Garfield Sobers retired in 1974 as the most prolific run scorer in Test cricket, with a total of 8,032 runs. The record stood for nine years, until it was ...
Sachin Tendulkar is the youngest debutant at the age of 16 years and 238 days [6] and Farokh Engineer is the oldest debutant at the age of 36 years and 138 days. [7] Anil Kumble is the leading wicket taker with 337 wickets to his name, [8] and Sachin Tendulkar is the leading run scorer with 18,426 runs to his name from 452 innings at an average ...
Srikkanth made his One Day International (ODI) debut at the age of 21, against England in Ahmedabad on 25 November 1981. Opening the batting with Sunil Gavaskar, he scored a duck and India lost by 5 wickets. [9] He made his Test debut two days later against England at Bombay. Though he bagged another duck in the first innings and scored just 13 ...