Cricketers who were named after famous predecessors
Cricketers who were named after famous predecessors
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Rohan Gavaskar
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He is the son of legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar. Rohan played one-day international for India. He was named after his father’s favourite player former west Indies cricketer Rohan Kanhai. Kanhai was Sunil’ss favourite players and a teammate on the World XI tour of Australia in 1971-72.

But some report claimed that Rohan’s full name is supposedly Rohan Jaivishwa, ML Jaisimha and GR Viswanath, who is also Rohan’s uncle.

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Sudipta

Sports Crazy man, Live in cricket, Love writing, Studied English journalism in Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Chose sports as the subject for study, Born 24 years ago during the 1992 Cricket world...