Sunil Manohar Gavaskar is more popularly known as Sunil Gavaskar in the world of cricket. This renowned cricketer of India was born on 10th July in the year 1949. He was born in India in the city of Mumbai. For team India Gavaskar played as an opening batsman.
Sunil Gavaskar is also known by his nickname Sunny. He led a great career in Indian cricket from 1970s to 80s. In 1971, Gavaskar played his debut test series and set a record of 774 runs against the West Indies. In 1974, he played his first one day match.
The cricket career of Sunil Gavaskar includes 81 centuries. He has scored 25,834 runs in total. Among his total runs, he scored 10,122 in test matches. He has an average of 51.12. In ODIs, his average is 35.13. In his sports career, Gavaskar played 125 matches in test cricket and he played 108 one day matches. He set a record by scoring 10,000 runs in test
cricket for the first time in the history of the game. In 1983, Gavaskar made another record in cricket by surpassing the
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record made by Donald Bradman of 29 centuries in test matches. As per the cricket record, Gavaskar has secured 34 centuries in test. This has remained the highest number of centuries in test cricket as per the record of 2004.
Sunil Gavaskar took the responsibility of the captainship of Indian cricket team for a number of times during the latter years of 70s and during the early years of 80s. As he was the captain of the team, the team faced many draws. Mention may be made of India's win over Pakistan in 1979. In 1985, in Australia, India won the World Championship of Cricket.
In 1980 Gavaskar was recognized as the Wisden Cricketer of the Year. Sunil Gavaskar retired from his cricket career in the year 1987. He has been honored with Padma Bhushan. He has also been appointed as the sheriff of the Mumbai city. Gavaskar sometimes takes up the role of the commentator in the cricket field. He has penned his autobiography called Sunny Days in 1980. He is also a popular columnist of cricket.
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