Sunil Gavaskar: First Alpha Mail of Indian Cricket.

New Delhi. The younger generation who follows Indian cricket knows Virat Kohli’s aggression, Rohit Sharma’s hit man Roop and Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Sunil Gavaskar was the real hero before Sachin Tendulkar became the ‘God’ of cricket. Gavaskar was the alpha mail of Indian cricket, that too when this word was not popular all over the world.

This is the reason that even today he has a lot of respect in the Indian cricket circuit. The first player to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket was Gavaskar fearless. How not, when he faced the fastest bowlers of cricket? Dennis Lily, Jeff Thomson… and of course, the famous West Indian Pace-Balling Quartet, which included Joel Garner, Malcolm Marshall and Michael Holding. Gavaskar was something special, made of different soil.

Sunil Gavaskar’s style was different in the 1970s. His former Indian partner Karsan Ghavri told that Gavaskar used to work in his own way. The former Indian fast bowler told how Gavaskar could do everything on his own. One of the most notorious chapters of his career was his very slow 36 innings in the 1975 World Cup. 174 balls Gavaskar played alone, achieving the target above 300 runs. This innings of Gavaskar did not make anyone happy in the dressing room but Little Master was adigal.

Ghavri said on Vicky Lalwani’s YouTube channel, “We did not know how to play ODI cricket. England scored 334 runs in the first match but when we came to bat, Sunil played a full 60 overs in that match. Many times a message was sent to him that he was not listening to the fast or out. But Sunil Gavaskar did not listen to anyone. But he did not listen to anyone. Played against

After the match, he told the reason, ‘I was facing these players. Was practicing for future tests. There was upheaval in the dressing room. When our manager asked him, Gavaskar said ‘leave me alone’, “