Sunil Gavaskar’s weakness on West Indies tour revealed

Dec 31, 2018 at 2:04 PM

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Sunil Gavaskar’s weakness on West Indies tour revealed

Legendary Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar turned 67 on Sunday. He is in the list of few batsmen who played famous West Indies pace quartet adequately. Gavaskar is a respected man in the world of cricket because of his skill to play the formidable pace attack of the West Indies without any modern equipment of cricket.

On the day of his birthday, a new thing about him was revealed by his sister. Gavaskar has a weakness for glucose biscuits.

Whenever he travelled to the Caribbean for a series he will start his packing with the Parle G biscuits. This was revealed by Gavaskar’s younger sister Nutan at a function organised by the Indian Cricket Club.

“He used to like those biscuits…Parle-G glucose biscuits. West Indies was a long way off and (it was a) long tour, so he would like to have those biscuits for his tea or coffee, so whoever was travelling there, we would try and send those packets of biscuits for him,” Nutan Gavaskar told reporters.

“He would pack (the biscuits before the tour), they often used to get over in three weeks or a month.”

“Wherever he travelled, and whoever travelled to that place…some journalist, or someone we knew, or relatives, some friends (we used to send biscuits with them),” she added.

“Now he is a little worried about diabetes and those biscuits are little sweet, so he tries and avoids them, (but) he still likes them,” she said.

Former Mumbai opener Shishir Hattangadi shared a witty anecdote. Once the famous West Indies pace quartet came in Mumbai to play a charity match.  They were having a beer at Ravi Shastri’s house, and then Sunil Gavaskar walked in to join the party. The four pacers stood up and  said, ‘hi master, how are you’.

“It was at Ravi Shastri’s house where during some tournament (for charity)… all the fast bowlers had come in, and they were having few beers at Ravi’s place.

“Sunny (Gavaskar) walks in his pyjama-kurta, little late, the moment he walked in through that door, all four (bowlers), over six feet, got up saying ‘hi master, how are you’,” he reminisced.

“I mean that (is the kind of) respect and reverence the four great bowlers (had for Gavaskar) and they were all great – (Micheal) Holding, (Joel) Garner, (Malcolm) Marshall, (Andy) Roberts,” he said.

Gavaskar learnt his cricket skills growing up in the rigid cricket culture.  He is short and played without a helmet and other protective equipment.

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