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Sunil Gavaskar

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Sunil Manohar 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sunil Gavaskar has received more than 5,185,276 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Sunil Gavaskar is the 3rd most popular cricketer, the 756th most popular biography from India (down from 735th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Cricketer.

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Among CRICKETERS

Among cricketers, Sunil Gavaskar ranks 3 out of 136. Before him are Don Bradman, and Sachin Tendulkar. After him are Kapil Dev, W. G. Grace, Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Bishan Singh Bedi, Willie Watson, Viv Richards, Shane Warne, and Ravindra Jadeja.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Sunil Gavaskar ranks 560. Before him are Richard Neal, Serhiy Novikov, Aleksandar Tomov, Erwin Kremers, Per Røntved, and Micky Arison. After him are Wendy Sherman, Zbigniew Gut, Paul Manafort, Tommy Lee Wallace, Dan Ar Braz, and Boris Plotnikov.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sunil Gavaskar ranks 756 out of 1,861. Before him are John Shepherd-Barron (1925), Sumitra Mahajan (1943), Nambi Narayanan (1941), A. R. Rahman (1966), Kirron Kher (1955), and Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872). After him are Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), Raj Reddy (1937), Reita Faria (1943), Chandramukhi Basu (1860), and Ruskin Bond (1934).

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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 Kapil Dev (1959), Virat Kohli (1988), MS Dhoni (1981), Bishan Singh Bedi (1946), Ravindra Jadeja (1988), Rahul Dravid (1973), Sourav Ganguly (1972), Anil Kumble (1970), Harbhajan Singh (1980), and Mithali Raj (1982).

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