Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar  pronunciation (help·info) (born 10 July 1949) is a former Indian international cricketer who played from the early 1970s to late 1980s for the Bombay cricket team and Indian national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest Test batsmen and best opening batsmen in Test cricket history, Gavaskar set world records during his career for the most Test runs and most Test centuries scored by any batsman. He held the record of 34 Test centuries for almost two decades before it was broken by Sachin Tendulkar in December 2005. He was the first person to score centuries in both innings of a Test match three times. He was the first Test batsman to score 10,000 Test Runs in a Career and now stands at number 12 on the group of 13 players with 10,000+ Test Runs.

Sunil Gavaskar

Personal information
Full name	Sunil Manohar Gavaskar
Born	(1949-07-10) 10 July 1949 (age 69) Bombay, Bombay State, India
Nickname	Sunny, Little Master
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Batting	Right-hand batsman
Bowling	Right-arm medium
Role	Opening batsman, commentator
Relations	MK Mantri (uncle) RS Gavaskar (son) GR Viswanath (brother-in-law)
International information
National side	India (1971-1987)
Test debut (cap 128)	6 March 1971 v West Indies
Last Test	13 March 1987 v Pakistan
ODI debut (cap 4)	13 July 1974 v England
Last ODI	5 November 1987 v England
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1967/68–1986/87	Bombay
1980	Somerset
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 125 108 348 151 Runs scored 10122 3092 25834 4594 Batting average 51.12 35.13 51.46 36.17 100s/50s 34/45 1/27 81/105 5/37 Top score 236* 103* 340 123 Balls bowled 380 20 1953 108 Wickets 1 1 22 2 Bowling average 206.00 25.00 56.36 40.50 5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a Best bowling 1/34 1/10 3/43 1/10 Catches/stumpings 108/– 22/– 293/– 37/–
Source: CricketArchive, 5 September 2008

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 regarded as the most vicious in Test history. His captaincy of the Indian team, however, was less successful. Turbulent performances of the team led to multiple exchanges of captaincy between Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, with one of Gavaskar's sackings coming just six months before Kapil led India to victory at the 1983 Cricket World Cup.

Gavaskar is a recipient of the Indian civilian honours of the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan. In 2012, he was awarded the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for Cricket in India.

On 28 March 2014, Supreme Court of India, appointed Gavaskar as the Interim BCCI President primarily to oversee 7th Season of Indian Premier League. The Court also directed him to relinquish his job as a Cricket Commentator.