Sunil Gavaskar or Sunil Manohar Gavaskar is an Indian Former International Cricketer, businessman and commentator. Little Master, that he was called in the era he played, was one of the most technically equipped opening batters of all time. Almost all through his playing career from 1971 to 1987, he would negotiate some of the fiery spells from Pace trios or quartets, and that too without a helmet. Sunny Gavaskar would start the competition of run charts as he would be the first to cross the 10,000 runs milestone in international cricket. An exponent of Khadoos batting of then Bombay, Sunil Gavaskar would get among the game’s greats from across the globe.

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FULL NAME	Sunil Manohar Gavaskar
COUNTRY	India
GENDER	Male
DATE OF BIRTH	July 10, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bombay, Maharashtra, India
PLACE OF RESIDENCE	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
NICKNAME	Sunny, Little Master
FATHER’S NAME	Manohar Gavaskar
MOTHER’S NAME	Meenal Gavaskar
NAMES OF SIBLINGS	Nutan Gavaskar, Kavita Gavaskar
SPOUSE’S NAME	Marshneil Gavaskar
CHILDREN NAME	Rohan Gavaskar
PROFILE TYPE	Sportsperson

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SPORT	Cricket
DISCIPLINE	Men’s Cricket
ACTIVE/RETIRED	Retired
ROLE	Right Hand Opening Batsman
LEVEL	National, International
TEAMS	India, Bombay, Somerset

Career

1. Debut Test Match: vs West Indies at Queen’s Park Oval on March 6, 1971

2. Last Test Match: vs Pakistan at M Chinnaswamy Stadium on March 13, 1987

3. Debut ODI Match: vs England at Headingley, Leeds on July 13, 1974

4. Last ODI: vs England at Wankhede Stadium on November 5, 1987

5. Sunil Gavaskar has scored 10122 runs in 125 matches in 16 years of Test career at an average of 51.12 and strike rate of 66.04 including 34 hundreds and 45 fifties. He has scored 3 double centuries and his highest individual score is 236.

6. Sunil Gavaskar has scored 3092 runs in 108 matches in 13 years of ODI career at an average of 35.14 and strike rate of 62.26 including 1 hundred and 27 fifties. His highest individual score is 103.

Achievements/Records

1. He was honored with Arjuna Award, by the Government of India, in 1975

2. Wisden’s Cricketers of the Year in 1979

3. The first Cricketer to score 10,000 Test runs, 10,000 international runs and 30, 31, 32, 33 & 34 Centuries in Test Cricket.

4. The first Cricketer to score hundreds in both innings of a test match.

5. Sunil Gavaskar’s 774 runs at an average of 154.80 in his debut series was recorded as the most runs by an test debutant in the series he/she debuted.

6. The first Cricketer to score 4 consecutive centuries at 2 venues; the venues were Port of Spain & Wankhede.

7. Sunil Gavaskar was honored with Padma Bhushan award in 1980.

8. The first Cricketer to record century partnerships with 18 different cricketers.

9. The first Cricketer to record centuries in both innings of a Test Match on three occasions.

10. The first Indian Cricketer to record 100 catches in Test Cricket (minus wicketkeepers).

11. Sunil Gavaskar is the first Indian to carry his bat in a match in test cricket; he scored 127 not out in Faisalabad Test in 1983.

12. In 1996, the India vs Australia bilateral test series was renamed as Border-Gavaskar Trophy in the honor of Sunil Gavaskar and Allan Border, the two legendary cricketers.