Even in 2025, Sunil Gavaskar Continues to dominate the test batting charts gang indian batters in English. The og ‘little master’ was the first Indian batter to aggregate more than 1000 runs in English, Until sachin tendulkar and rahul dravid camera. Gavaskar’s Epic Fourth-Innings 221 in 1979 At the Oval remained the Highst Test Score by an Indian in English in English Until Shubman Gill Recorded a Career-Fest 269 Earllier.
Gavaskar’s Legendary Test Career Can Throw Up a Long Playlist of Epic Innings, Starting With his 774-Run Initiation in the West Indies in 1971, Still The Record for Most Runs By Air Debut Test Series. Despite stacking up a record 34 test centuries during his time, gavaskar still favors a quiet yet gritty from his early days on the international stage as most satis innings. Forged in the maidans of Bombay, even the great gavaskar was alien to all batting conditions, escaped ‘greenop’ that was commonplace in England.
Only Months from His Record-Breaking Debut In the Caribbean, Where He Smashed Four Centuries (Including Three in Succession) in Six Innings, Gavaskar Wouldes on His Forst England Tour. The Elegant Right-Hander will only tally tally 144 runs on six innings on his maiden uk trip, with a duck in his last innings at the oval. And yet, gavaskar would jot in a pivotal innings that he consides the development of a world-dominating batter in his time-a 57-run innings at the very export, manchester.
57 At OLD Trafford, Gavaskar’s Most Satisfying Innings
Speaking to espncricinfo in 2014, Gavaskar would real How He would come up up against a series of challenges as he prepared to open the innings ashok mankad in respones to engineing firing.
Watch: Highlights of English VS India, 2nd Test 1971 at Manchester
Frosty Weather, A Treafficiently Green Strip, So Much So Gavaskar Could Not Make Out The Different From The Outfield, And a Menacing English Fast Bohn Price, Jolar Offer Gavaskar An Experience. Lifetime.
“We had never seen a greentop. It was bitterly cold.
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As cricketing superstitions go, gavaskar would never have a sweater batting and despite the childly manchester weather, he stroode out to bat in his plain whites, something this he wield later regret.
“I never used to wear a sweater normally. Batted in a sweater. “
Gavaskar would then contend with the challenge from English seamers and peter lever and the fiery price, whom he regards Among the quickest bowlers he had ever fceded.
“Price Had a longish, angular run-up which which which did the last ten yards. He was 6’4 ″ and was Quick. “I reckon he was the fastest I played at the time.
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Batting 163 minutes, Gavaskar Fell Caught Behind Off Price In a Match That Wouldes Eventually Close Out In a Draw. While he Negligble Contribution to Show in India’s Historic Series-Winning Game At The Oval, Gavaskar WOULD Return Three Years Later As a Superior Batter, And Start with His Maiden Test Building Against Very same ground – Old Trafford, Manchester.
“The 57, Absolutely Without a Doubt (most satisfying innings). The conditions, the first outing on a greenop, the circumstances – all of that actually made it a turning point in my carer.”