The date of March 7 is special for the Little Master, ‘Dus Hazari’ was made with a half-century against Pakistan
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. | Edited By: Riya Kasana
Updated on: Mar 07, 2023 | IST
The day of March 7 is very special for India’s veteran player Sunil Gavaskar. On this day he set the biggest world record of his career.
Legendary Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar, called Little Master, played many brilliant innings in his career of 16 years. He faced every dangerous bowler in the world and rained runs with the bat. The day of March 7 is very special in Gavaskar’s life. Gavask became ‘Dus Hazari’ 36 years ago on the same day of March 7. ICC Twitter
Gavaskar completed 10,000 runs in his Test career on March 7, 1987. He became the first batsman in the world to do so. After him, many other players achieved this position, but Gavaskar was the first to set a world record by doing this feat. ICC Twitter
Gavaskar showed this feat in the match against Pakistan. When Gavaskar came out to bat in this Test match being played at Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad, he was 58 runs away from the figure of 10,000. To see this historic moment, a crowd of fans had gathered in the stadium. ICC Twitter
Gavaskar was on 57. That’s why Gavaskar completed a run by playing a shot in the direction of slip on the ball of Pakistani bowler Ijaz Fakih. As soon as Gavaskar took a single, the fans started celebrating. Alam was that the match was stopped for 20 minutes. Gavaskar was being garlanded with flowers, slogans were being raised in his name. ICC Twitter
Gavaskar played an inning of 63 runs in this test match. The result of the match was also a draw. Gavaskar played a total of 125 Test matches in his Test career and scored 10,122 runs in his 214 innings. He had 34 centuries to his name. At that time this was also a world record. ICC Twitter
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