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Sunil Manohar "Sunny" 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]
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.
Kaloji Narayana Rao- One of the greatest Telugu poets. ... Father of Indian Comic Books - Anant Pai. ... [32] Sunil Gavaskar [33] First Individual Olympic Medal for ...
He also authored a 2007 book on the Cricket World Cup [3] and wrote a biography of cricketer Rahul Dravid titled The Nice Guy who finished first. [2] [4] [5] His 2009 book SMG is about cricketer Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, former captain of the Indian cricket team. [6] and had an unveiling on Saturday February 21, 2009 in the Mumbai metro. [7]
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 ...
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]
Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar pronunciation ⓘ (born 6 April 1956) is a former Indian cricketer and a cricket administrator. He was considered to have a very good drive.Along with Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, he was a key player in the Indian batting line up in the late 70s and early 80s.
In his book "Idols", Indian legend and compatriot Sunil Gavaskar described Mohinder Amarnath as the finest batsman in the world. Mohinder made his first test century at Perth at the WACA (the fastest and bounciest wicket in the world) batting against Jeff Thomson. He followed this test century with another 10 more against top class fast bowling.