2. Sunil Gavaskar:
The legacy of the legendary Sunil Gavaskar began in the very first series he played. A staggering 774 runs came from a 21-year-old Gavaskar’s bat in four just Tests, as India registered its first Test match victory as well as the series victory against the mighty West Indies in the Caribbean.
Gavaskar was the first man to pass Don Bradman’s long-standing mark of 29 Test hundreds and breach the 10,000-run mark in the longest format of the game. He held the record for the highest number of Test centuries (34) before Sachin Tendulkar went past him in 2005.
The right-handed batsman played 125 Tests for India, scoring 10122 runs, and 3092 runs in 108 ODI appearances.