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about a famous cricketer sunil gavaskar

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Sunil Gavaskar    (born 10 July 1949) is an Indian former cricketer who played during the 1970s and 1980s for the Bombay cricket teamand Indian national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history, Gavaskar 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. He was the first person to score centuries in both innings of a Test match three times. He was the first Test batsman to score 10,000 Test Runs in a Career and now stands at number 12 on the group of 12 players of with 10,000 Test Runs.

Sunil GavaskarPersonal informationFull nameSunil Manohar GavaskarBorn10 July 1949 (age 68)
Bombay, Now Mumbai, Maharashtra, IndiaNicknameSunny, Little MasterHeight5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)Batting styleRight-hand batsmanBowling styleRight-arm mediumRoleOpening batsman, commentatorRelationsMK Mantri (uncle), RS Gavaskar (son), GR ViswanathInternational informationNational side

India

Test debut (cap 128)6 March 1971 v West IndiesLast Test13 March 1987 v PakistanODI debut (cap 4)13 July 1974 v EnglandLast ODI5 November 1987 v EnglandDomestic team informationYearsTeam1967/68–1986/87Bombay1980SomersetCareer statisticsCompetitionTestODIFCLAMatches125108348151Runs scored101223092258344594Batting average51.1235.1351.4636.17100s/50s34/451/2781/1055/37Top score236*103*340123Balls bowled380201953108Wickets11222Bowling average206.0025.0056.3640.505 wickets in innings000010 wickets in match0n/a0n/aBest bowling1/341/103/431/10Catches/stumpings108/–22/–293/–37/–

Source: CricketArchive, 5 September 2008

Gavaskar was widely admired for his technique against fast bowling, with a particularly high average of 65.45 against the West Indies, who possessed a four-pronged fast bowling attack regarded as the most vicious in Test history. His captaincy of the Indian team, however, was less successful. Turbulent performances of the team led to multiple exchanges of captaincy between Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, with one of Gavaskar's sackings coming just six months before Kapil led India to victory at the 1983 Cricket World Cup.