Indian Cricket Stars
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar | MS Dhoni | Shikhar Dhawan | Rohit Sharma | Suresh Raina | Virat Kohli | Cheteshwar Pujara | Yusuf Pathan | Murali Kartik | Murali Vijay | Dinesh Karthik | Irfan Pathan | Ishant Sharma | Bhuvneshwar KumarGautam Gambir | Virender Sehwag | Zaheer Khan | Harbhajan Singh | Yuvraj Singh | Joginder Sharma | Mohammad Kaif | Ramesh Powar | Robin Uthappa | RP Singh
Rahul Dravid | Ajit Agarkar | Anil Kumble | Sourav Ganguly | VVS Laxman | Wasim Jaffer | Dinesh Mongia | VRV Singh | Sreesanth | Piyush Chawla | Pragyan Ojha | Munaf Patel
Kapil Dev Nikhanj | Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar | Roger Michael Humphrey Binny | Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri | Mohinder Amarnath | Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar
Sunil Gavaskar
Sunil Gavaskar was one
of the greatest opening batsmen of all time, and certainly the most
successful. His game was built around a near perfect technique and enormous
powers of concentration. It is hard to visualise a more beautiful defence:
virtually unbreachable, it made his wicket among the hardest to earn.
He played with equal felicity off both front and back foot, had an excellent
judgement of length and line and was beautifully balanced. He had virtually
every stroke in the book but traded flair for the solidity his side
needed more. He still holds the record for the highest number of Test
hundreds, but statistics alone don't reveal Gavaskar's true value to
India. He earned respect for Indian cricket and he taught his team-mates
the virtue of professionalism. The self-actualisation of Indian cricket
began under him.
Full name | Sunil Manohar Gavaskar |
Born | July 10, 1949, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra |
Major teams | India, Mumbai, Somerset |
Batting style | Right-hand bat |
Bowling style | Right-arm medium |
Career statistics | |
Test debut | West Indies v India at Port of Spain - Mar 6-10, 1971 |
Last Test | India v Pakistan at Bangalore - Mar 13-17, 1987 |
ODI debut | England v India at Leeds - Jul 13, 1974 |
Last ODI | India v England at Mumbai - Nov 5, 1987 |
First-class span | 1966/67 - 1987 |
List A span | 1973/74 - 1987/88 |