Interesting Facts about Sunil Gavaskar

Regarded as one of the greatest opening batsman of all time, Sunil Manohar Gavaskar solely changed the Indian player’s attitude towards fast bowling. Check out some interesting facts about little master:

Interesting Facts about Sunil Gavaskar

# Sunil Manohar Gavaskar was born on 10th July 1949 in Mumbai.

# An interesting incident was associated with his birth. When he was born, the nurse in the hospital mistakenly swapped him on the bed and handed over a wrong child to Gavaskar's Mother. But his Uncle noticed earlier that Sunil Gavaskar was born with a small hole on his ear and searched all the child in the hospital and than finally found him behind a Fisher Women who have just given a birth to a child. Thanks to his uncle who noticed him and otherwise may be he would have been a Fishermen.

# Sunil also done the job of match referee in 1 Test and 5 ODI before becoming a Commentary.

# Sunil Gavaskar played the lead role in a Marathi movie ‘Savli Premachi’. He also did a cameo in a Hindi movie ‘Maalamal’.

# He also lent his voice for a popular Marathi song, ‘Yaduniye madhye thambaila vel konala’.

# In 1975, he was appreciated with the Arjuna Award for cricket

# In 1980, he was awarded with the Padma Bhushan

# In 2012, Sunil Gavaskar was honoured with Col C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award.

# His childhood fascination was to become a wrestler. In fact, he was a huge fan of wrestler Maruti Vadar. He even used to carry Vadar’s luggage.

# In 1980, he played one season of English county cricket for Somerset in which he scored 686 runs at an average of 34.30. This includes two hundreds.

# He was such a huge fan of West Indian cricketer Rohan Kanhai that he named his only child Rohan Gavaskar after him.

# He was the first Indian player to take 100 catches in test matches.

# He scored 10122 runs in test cricket at an average of 51.12 with 34 centuries and 45 half centuries. He also scored 3092 ODI runs at an average of 35.13 with 1 century and 27 half centuries.