A thread that I posted to Twitter to commemorate Sunil Gavaskar’s 70th birthday on July 10 2019:
Happy 70th birthday to Sunil Gavaskar. The scorer of more than 13000 international runs but here is footage of his solitary Test wicket, dismissing Zaheer Abbas on 96: https://t.co/wKPfilt5bD
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) July 9, 2019
The aspect’s a bit squished but here is Sunil Gavaskar scoring 59 at Lord’s in 1979 to the accompaniment of my favourite TV cricket voice of all time, Jim Laker: https://t.co/vELFov3Izf
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) July 9, 2019
Gavaskar’s 29th Test century brought up at the Feroz Shah Kotla off the bowling of Marshall, Holding, Davis and Daniel. (But not off 94 balls as the Youtube caption says) https://t.co/DyYUVks53A
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) July 9, 2019
The good old days when a “full tour” meant six Test matches. Gavaskar’s career-best 236 not out in the Sixth Test of the 1983-84 series against the West Indies at Chennai. Today is Sunny’s 70th birthday. https://t.co/M8ogL2cCXt
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) July 9, 2019
21 year old Gavaskar felicitated after a spectacular debut – 1971 https://t.co/QdCOO3iVTI
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) July 10, 2019
I was hoping to find some footage from India’s 1977-78 tour of Australia when SMG scored three centuries but I’ll have to settle for 1985-86 when he scored two, First, his 166 not out at Adelaide… https://t.co/cXfZ3JSbNQ
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) July 10, 2019
… and then, his 172 at Sydney. Happy birthday Sunil Gavaskar who is seventy today. https://t.co/cXfZ3JSbNQ
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) July 10, 2019