He made his first-class debut for Vazir Sultan Colts XI against an XI from Dungarpur in 1966/67 but remained in Bombay's Ranji Trophy squad for the next two years without playing a match.
He scored 246*, 222 and 85 in school cricket in his final year of secondary education before striking a century against the touring London schoolboys.
3.8 Failure to win for successive Testsīorn in Mumbai in a middle class Marathi Family and a student of St Xavier's High School young Sunil Gavaskar was named India's Best Schoolboy Cricketer of the year in 1966 while playing for his school. 2.2 First Test century and first series victory over West Indies. 2.1 First test match win in West Indies. In 2012, he was awarded the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for Cricket in India. He was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2009. Gavaskar is a recipient of the Indian civilian honours of the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan. 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. His captaincy of the Indian team, however, was less successful. However, most of Gavaskar's centuries against West Indies were against their second string team when their four-pronged attack were not playing. Gavaskar was widely admired for his technique against fast bowling, with a particularly high average of 65.45 against the West Indies team, who possessed a four-pronged fast bowling attack regarded as the most vicious in Test history. 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-plus Test runs. 
He was the first person to score centuries in both innings of a Test match three times. He held the record of 34 Test centuries for almost two decades before it was broken by Sachin Tendulkar in December 2005. Widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen and one of the 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.
info) born 10 July 1949) is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer representing India and Bombay from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (Marathi pronunciation: pronunciation ( help
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