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DNA Web Team | Jul 10, 2021, 10:36 AM IST
1.Almost switched at birth
India would have surely missed one of the greatest Test batsmen if his uncle had not noticed the simple birthmark missing. Sunny Gavaskar, who was born with a birthmark near his ear on July 10, had revealed that he was almost switched at birth with a fisherwoman's baby.
His uncle, who had visited Sunny earlier had spotted the birthmark on him but during his next visit, saw that the baby in the crib didn't have one. Soon after a frantic search, his uncle managed to locate him in a fisherwoman's crib.
Gavaskar in his autobiography, "Sunny Days", had written, "I may never have become a cricketer and this book would certainly not have been written, if an eagle-eyed relation, Narayan Masurekar, had not come into my life the day I was born.
"It seems that Nan-Kaka (as I called him), who had come to see me in hospital on my first day in this world, noticed a little hole near the top of my left earlobe," he added.
"The next day he came again and picked up the baby lying on the crib next to my mother. To his utter horror, he discovered that the baby did not have the hole on the left earlobe. A frantic search of all the cribs in the hospital followed, and I was eventually located sleeping blissfully beside a fisherwoman, totally oblivious of the commotion I had caused! The mix-up, it appears, followed after the babies had been given their baths," he concluded.
He had narrated the same incident in Gaurav Kapur's show "Breakfast With Champions": (hear from 9:15)
2.Getting a haircut during a match
Sunil Gavaskar had got a haircut from the umpire in the course of a match. While batting against England, the conditions were extremely windy at Old Trafford in 1974, and Gavaskar was miffed with his hair blocking his sight.
Soon after, Gavaskar asked the umpire, Dickie Bird, to trim his hair, while the match was on. Bird obliged and with a pair of scissors, he had kept to cut the threads from the seam of the cricket ball cut his hair.
Though India lost the match and the series, Gavaskar's 101 and his haircut stood out.
3.Became first batsman to score 10,000 Test runs
What can Sunil Gavaskar not do. The Little Master on March 7, 1987, became the first batsman to score 10,000 Test runs. He achieved this feat against Pakistan, his 124th Test. As for the match, it ended in a draw and it was the 11th in a row between arch-rivals India and Pakistan.
The clash saw Pakistan score 395 runs in the first innings, with Ijaz Faqih scoring 105. He was supported by Imran Khan who scored 72 runs. Among the bowlers, Shivlal Yadav claimed 4 wickets.
India, in reply, scored 323 runs with Gavaskar (63) and Dilip Vengsarkar (109) doing the most work. Indian bowlers were seen struggling in the final innings of the match as Pakistan scored 135 runs in 99 overs.
4.Sunil Gavaskar did not celebrate a milestone
Once on the pitch, Gavaskar never looked at the scoreboard, and this lead to him not celebrating a milestone he achieved.
According to a report published in Free Press Journal, Gavaskar was clueless after he had equalled Sir Don Bradman's record. He had scored his 29th century, a record that stood for more than three decades.
5.Sunil Gavaskar - The actor
Sunny Gavaskar - the cricketer, the commentator, and also the actor. Gavaskar played a lead part in a Marathi film, Saavli Premachi (1974).
He was also seen with Naseeruddin Shah in the movie Malamaal.
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