Sunil Gavaskar is highly regarded as one of the greatest Test batsmen of all time, and rightly so. His technique was probably near perfect, his defence looked better than anyone, hardest to breach, and his exceptional patience made his wicket among the hardest to earn. He was the first batsman in Indian Cricket to have such outrageous stats in the purest format of the game. Gavaskar, also known as the ‘Little Master’, is about to turn 72 and has plenty of records to his name during the career, which lasted 125 Tests.
Let’s have a look at some of those prestigious ones :
1) 1st ever to cross the 10,000 run mark in Test Cricket
Sunil Gavaskar created history on March 7, 1987, against Pakistan, as he became the first-ever batsman to cross the 10,000 run mark in Test Cricket. As expected, the Ahmedabad crowd went berserk while entering the field to congratulate the mainstay of Indian batting of that era and one of the finest of all time. Coincidentally, it also proved to be the last series of his prestigious Test career. Find here the list of top run-scorers in Indian cricket.
2) Scored more than 700 hundred runs in his Debut series
Gavaskar debuted in March 1971 against the mighty West Indies attack in their own backyard, but that didn’t stop him from announcing himself in front of the cricketing world. The young right-hander stood tall against the most fearsome attack in world cricket at that time. He batted in 8 innings and amassed 774 runs with four hundreds and three fifties at a supreme average of 154.8, including a double hundred. To date, it’s still the highest number of runs scored by an Indian batsman in a Test series. You can check here who leads the same chart in ODIs.
