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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.
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 ...
Hemendra Singh Rao Pawar; ... Kaloji Narayana Rao- One of the greatest Telugu poets. ... [32] Sunil Gavaskar [33] First Individual Olympic Medal for India.
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.
English billiards champion Michael Ferreira refused the Padma Shri in 1981 as cricketer Sunil Gavaskar had been awarded the more prestigious Padma Bhushan; as Ferreira noted, his "achievements in billiards were no less than Sunil Gavaskar's in cricket" and deserved equal recognition. [39] He accepted a Padma Bhushan in 1983. [67]
The Indian cricket team toured England in the 1979 season and played 16 first-class fixtures, winning only one, losing 3 and drawing 12.. India played four Test matches and lost the series to England 1-0 with three Tests drawn.
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]
A couple of months later, former Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar gave Tendulkar a pair of his own lightweight pads and told him to not get disheartened for not receiving the Bombay Cricket Association's Best Junior Cricketer Award. Of this experience, Tendulkar later said, "It was the greatest source of encouragement for me".