Sunil Gavaskar, Age 73 ,Height ,Biography, Family and More

Sunil Gavaskar is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer who represented India and Bombay from 1971 to 1987. Gavaskar is acknowledged as one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time. He was Born on 10 ‘July ‘1949 in Bombay, Province of Bombay, India and he is 73 years old (as in 2022). His Full Name is Sunil Manohar Gavaskar .He is one of the most Admired and multitalented All rounder. He is widely known for his technique against fast bowling. Gavaskar is a recipient of the Indian civilian honours of the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan.

Born in Mumbai in a middle class Marathi Family and he was a student of St Xavier’s High School and he was named India’s Best Schoolboy Cricketer of the year in 1966 while playing for his school. Gavaskar was also a fine slip fielder and his safe catching in the slips helped him become the first Indian (excluding wicket-keepers) to take over a hundred catches in Test matches. Gavaskar was the first Test cricket player to make over 10,000 runs. He is the first Indian cricketer to carry his bat in test cricket, with a score of 127 not out in the Faisalabad Test in the year 1983.

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• Sunil Gavaskar is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer who represented India and Bombay from 1971 to 1987.
• He is acknowledged as one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time.
• He was widely admired for his technique against fast bowling.
• His captaincy of the Indian team, however, was mentioned as less successful despite of team winning the Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket in 1985.
• Gavaskar is a recipient of the Indian civilian honours of the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan.
• In 2012, he was awarded the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for Cricket in India.

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• He was Born on 10 ‘July ‘1949 in Bombay, Province of Bombay, India and he is 73 years old (as in 2022).
• He is hailing from Middle Class Marathi Family His father was Manohar Gavaskar and his Mother was Meenal Gavaskar.
• He was a student of St Xavier’s High School and Gavaskar was named India’s Best Schoolboy Cricketer of the year in 1966 while playing for his school.
• He is well known Cricketer and he is called by some of his Nicknames like Sunny, Little Master.
• He was captain of the Indian team in the late 1970s and early 1980.
•  During his time ,Kapil Dev emerged as a leading pace bowler for the country.
• Under his captaincy india got nine victories nad eight looses but most of the matches were drawn.
• He was the greatest opening Batsman of all time and also successful and His game was built around a near-perfect technique and enormous powers of concentration.
• In 1977–78 he toured Australia, scoring three consecutive Test centuries (113, 127, 118) in the second innings of the first three Tests at Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne, respectively.
• He was also a fine slip fielder and his safe catching in the slips helped him become the first Indian to take over a hundred catches in Test matches.
• In one ODI against Pakistan in Sharjah in 1985, he took four catches and helped India defend a small total of 125.
• Gavaskar also opened the bowling for a short spell on occasions if only one pace bowler was playing.
• The only wicket claimed by him is that of Pakistani Zaheer Abbas in 1978–79.
• He could not be described as an attacking batsman, he had the ability of keeping the scoreboard ticking with unique shots such as the “late flick”.
• He was the first Test cricket player to make over 10,000 runs.

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• He held the record for the highest number of test centuries (34) before Sachin Tendulkar went past him in 2005.
• He is the first Indian cricketer to carry his bat in test cricket, with a score of 127 not out in the Faisalabad Test in the year 1983.
• He also became the first Indian fielder to get over a hundred catches in Test cricket.
• He is the only cricketer with Test century partnerships with 18 different players.
• He is the only cricketer to score 4 consecutive centuries at 2 venues — Port of Spain & Wankhede Stadium.
• He captained the national team on and off over a period between 1978 and 1985, which included a great 2–0 win over Pakistan in 1979–80.
• Gavaskar was the first cricketer to play 100 consecutive test matches.
• After retirement, he has been a popular, if sometimes controversial commentator both on TV and in print.
• In 2003, he became the first Indian to deliver the MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture
• He also served as an advisor to the India national cricket team during the home series against Australia in 2004.
• He was the Chairman of the ICC cricket committee until the time he was forced to choose between commenting and being on the committee.[30] He left the committee to continue his career as a broadcaster.
• The inaugural Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi Memorial Lecture was given by him on 20 February 2013 at Taj Coromandel, Chennai.
• On 28 March 2014 the Supreme Court of India appointed Sunil Gavaskar as the interim President of the BCCI, so that he can oversee the seventh Season of the Indian Premier League. and also the court asked him at the same time to give up his job as a commentator.
• Apart from his Cricket career he had also tried in Marathi movies, than he also appeared as a guest in Hindi movie ‘Maalamaal’ and he also sang a Marathi song “Ya Duniyemadhye Thambayaala Vel Konala”.
• In 1980, He received the Padma Bhushan award for his successful International career representing Team India from the former Indian President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.
• In 1996, The Border-Gavaskar Trophy has been instituted in his co-honour. It was decided that any bilateral Test series between India and Australia will be called as Border-Gavaskar Trophy, named after iconic players Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar.
• “Gavaskar Stadium” in his home district of Vengurla has been named after him.
• He has huge fan following on his social Media Accounts, He has 184K followers on his Instagram account, and on facebook he has 9408k followers and on Twitter he has 7054k Followers.
• He is one of the most admired and multitalented crciketer of his time and was the first Test cricket Player who make over 10,000 runs.

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