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Sunil Gavaskar

1949 - Today

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Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (Marathi pronunciation: [suniːl ɡaːʋəskəɾ]; born 10 July 1949) is an Indian cricket commentator and former captain of the national cricket team who represented India and Bombay 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sunil Gavaskar has received more than 4,895,146 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Sunil Gavaskar is the 3rd most popular cricketer, the 739th most popular biography from India (down from 668th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Cricketer.

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Among CRICKETERS

Among cricketers, Sunil Gavaskar ranks 3 out of 68. Before him are Don Bradman and Sachin Tendulkar. After him are W. G. Grace, MS Dhoni, Kapil Dev, Willie Watson, Alfred Bowerman, Virat Kohli, Garfield Sobers, Viv Richards, and Rahul Dravid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Sunil Gavaskar ranks 575. Before him are Richard Price, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, Thomas Bopp, Alex Miller, Jeannie Berlin, and Nancy Kyes. After him are Erwin Sellering, Percy Rojas, Jim Lea, Zdenko Verdenik, Leon Rippy, and Shaukat Aziz.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sunil Gavaskar ranks 739 out of 1,493. Before him are Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1923), Mahesh Bhatt (1948), Afzal-ud-Daulah (1827), Padmini (1932), Mira Nair (1957), and Chiranjeevi (1955). After him are Chandrashekhar Agashe (1888), Pinarayi Vijayan (1945), Vasundhara Raje (1953), Nirmala Sitharaman (1959), Simon Pimenta (1920), and Kamal Ranadive (1917).

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Among CRICKETERS In India

Among cricketers born in India, Sunil Gavaskar ranks 2. Before him are Sachin Tendulkar (1973). After him are MS Dhoni (1981), Kapil Dev (1959), Virat Kohli (1988), Rahul Dravid (1973), Sourav Ganguly (1972), Anil Kumble (1970), Bishan Singh Bedi (1946), Mithali Raj (1982), Ravindra Jadeja (1988), and Diana Edulji (1956).

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