Name(s) Sunil Manohar Gavaskar - popularly called SUNIL GAVASKAR - Nickname: SUNNY
Date of Birth July 10, 1949 – Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Identity Indian Former Cricketer
Date-wise Events / Works
  • March 06, 1971:   He made his test match debut on this day; against West Indies.
  • April 19, 1971:   On this day, he scored a century and a double century in the same test match, thereby becoming the second after Australian Doug Walters to do so.
  • July 13, 1974:   He made his ODI match debut on this day; against England.
  • December 28, 1983:   He scored the highest score in test cricket and surpassed the record of Sir Donald Bradman of Australia of 29 centuries in test matches, when he reached his century at the 6th test against West Indies at Madras, India.
  • March 07, 1987: He scored his 10,000th run in a test against Pakistan at Ahmedabad, there by becoming the first cricketer to reach this landmark.
  • March 13, 1987:   He played his last test match on this day; against Pakistan.
  • November 05, 1987:   He played his last ODI match on this day; against England.
  • July 15, 2016:   His record of most runs (9,607 runs) as a test match opener was broken by England Captain Alastair Cook while making 81 against Pakistan at Lord's on this day against Pakistan.
Other Events & Developments
  • Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history.
  • He set world records during his career for the most Test runs and most Test centuries scored by any batsman.
  • He held the record of 34 Test centuries for almost two decades before it was broken by Sachin Tendulkar in December 2005.
  • As a young boy, he was named India's Best Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year in 1966.
  • He was captain of the Indian team on several occasions in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
  • He was the first Indian (excluding wicket-keepers) to take over a hundred catches in Test matches.
  • He is the only Cricketer to have scored centuries in each innings of a Test thrice.
Awards and Accolades
  • 2012 – he was awarded the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for Cricket in India.
  • He is also a recipient of Padma Bhushan from the Govt. of India.
  • In December 1994 he was appointed the Sheriff of Mumbai, an honorary post, for a year.
Commemorations
  • The Border-Gavaskar Trophy has been instituted in his their honour.
Other His son Rohan was also a cricketer who played for Bengal in the Ranji Trophy. Rohan played some One Day Internationals for India, but could not make a permanent place for him in the Indian team.
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