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Sunil Gavaskar is a former international cricketer who represented and captained the Indian cricket team. In a career spanning over 16 years he made 35 centuries (100 or more runs) at the international level. [2] Described as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history, [3] [4] Gavaskar played 125 Test matches and scored 10,122 runs. [3]
Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar (Marathi pronunciation: [suniːl ɡaːʋəskəɾ]; born 10 July 1949), is a former captain of the Indian national cricket team who represented India and Mumbai from 1971 to 1987. [2]
Sunil Gavaskar was the first player to cross the 10,000 run mark in Tests. Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. [1] [2] In the chase to achieve top scores, West Indian Garfield Sobers retired in 1974 as the most prolific run scorer in Test cricket, with a total of ...
Sunil Gavaskar ^ 1971–1987 India: 34 1 – 35: Herschelle Gibbs: 1996–2010 South Africa: 14 21 0 35: Desmond Haynes ^ 1978–1994 West Indies: 18 17 – 35: Inzamam-ul-Haq: 1991–2007 Pakistan: 25 10 0 35: Viv Richards ^ 1974–1991 West Indies: 24 11 – 35: Steve Waugh ^ 1985–2004 Australia: 32 3 – 35: 36: Gary Kirsten: 1993–2004 ...
Sunil Gavaskar, the Indian opener played 106 consecutive Test matches, is fourth. The recently retired New Zealand wicket-keeper-batsman Brendon McCullum , who is fifth on the list with 101 matches, is the highest ranked cricketer who never missed a Test match during his playing career.
This is a list of Ranji Trophy records, ... Sunil Gavaskar: Mumbai: Bengal: 1981/82 338 Prashant Chopra: Himachal Pradesh: Punjab: 2017/18 Most career centuries.
Sunil Gavaskar: 1975–1984 47 9 8 30 19.14 19 Bishan Singh Bedi: 1975–1978 22 6 11 5 27.27 20 Gundappa Viswanath: 1979 2 0 1 1 0 21 Kapil Dev: 1982–1986 34 4 7 23 [5] 11.70 22 Dilip Vengsarkar: 1987–1989 10 2 5 3 20.00 23 Ravi Shastri: 1987 1 1 0 0 100.00 24 Krishnamachari Srikkanth: 1989 4 0 0 4 0 25 Mohammad Azharuddin: 1989–1998 47 ...
Also, during this time, Sunil Gavaskar is the first Indian to ever score a 200 in a test match. All of the teams feared when Sunil Gavaskar was at the crease, whether it was ODI matches, or Test Matches. India won 1983 Cricket World Cup, however, the West Indies were targeting Sunil Gavaskar and got him out