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Sunil Gavaskar

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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. Gavaskar is acknowledged as one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time. 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, widely regarded as the most vicious in Test history. However, most of Gavaskar's centuries against West Indies were against the team when their four-pronged attack were not playing together. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sunil Gavaskar is the 7th most popular cricketer (down from 3rd in 2019), the 897th most popular biography from India (down from 757th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Cricketer.

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Among CRICKETERS

Among cricketers, Sunil Gavaskar ranks 7 out of 136. Before him are Don Bradman, Willie Watson, William Donne, MS Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, and W. G. Grace. After him are Kumar Sangakkara, Andrew Flintoff, Alfred Bowerman, C. B. K. Beachcroft, Kapil Dev, and Virat Kohli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Sunil Gavaskar ranks 658. Before him are Julio Cardeñosa, Wilfried Gröbner, Lauren Shuler Donner, Aslaug Dahl, Brian Kidd, and Jane Smiley. After him are Abhay Ashtekar, Raymond Martin, Eddie Money, Roman Dmitriyev, Micky Arison, and Zbigniew Jaremski.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sunil Gavaskar ranks 897 out of 1,861. Before him are Anjali Devi (1927), Deepa Mehta (1950), Adolf Lu Hitler Marak (1958), Chiranjeevi (1955), Pentala Harikrishna (1986), and Amrita Singh (1958). After him are Ardeshir Irani (1886), Deepak Tijori (1961), Harnaaz Sandhu (2000), Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1923), Abhay Ashtekar (1949), and Sarojini Sahoo (1956).

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Among CRICKETERS In India

Among cricketers born in India, Sunil Gavaskar ranks 3. Before him are MS Dhoni (1981), and Sachin Tendulkar (1973). After him are Kapil Dev (1959), Virat Kohli (1988), VVS Laxman (1974), Ravindra Jadeja (1988), Ravichandran Ashwin (1986), Mohammed Shami (1990), K. L. Rahul (1992), Bishan Singh Bedi (1946), and Syed Kirmani (1949).

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