Gavaskar got back his lost form here. He brought back the hook shot which he had stopped playing since many years and his hooking and pulling got him one of his faster centuries. In the last test of the series gavaskar scored 236 not out. Gavaskar was a runmachine in his first 50 tests of his career where he scored 20 centuries. In next 75 yest he scored 14 centuries because after media and captaincy pressure and Kapil devs emergence, Mohinder Amarnaths comeback , Azhars dream entry ,Vengsarkar topping the best batsman charts in world, Gavaskar became a bit subdued . Then like every great batsman he came back well in the last 3 years of his career. Sunil Gavaskar retired as arguably the finest all time greatest opening batsman the world has produced.
Yes, often rated alongside Hobbs and Hutton as one of the greatest openers the game has ever produced. Sir Richie Benaud considered him as one of his 2openers in his Dream All Time Test XI
@@vedanthaananth3695 khaa se khatam ho gyi dominance wi ki bhai , 3-0 test haraya tha aur 5-0 odi mein haraya tha , revenge series ke naam se jaani jaati hai series
The way Have played genuine fast bowling was amazing. What a technique? and what a confidence he has. I am a great fan of Sunil. Sunil is a must watch for all generations.
Sunil का batting, बिल्कुल मनोहर He is the best OPENING BATSMAN. Bradman, Richard's, Sachin, Lara, name anyone who is considered great, is not an Opener. To be in the Frontline needs extra quality. To face the first ball of a test is simply amazing. You never know the pitch, bowler, ... You know nothing. Opener is like a sacrificial बकरा Only Gavaskar is better than Sunil. Gavaskar is no. 1 Opener. Sunil is no. 2 Opener.
Sheer nostalgia...Remember watching this match as a 13 yrs old school kid Live on our B/W TV set purchased just a month back,now I am 51 yrs old but those golden memories never fades away...Gavaskar has been my all time favourite...the pillar along with Kapil Dev for 70's and 80's...the golden era of cricket when cricket was a sports and not a business !!❤
Bro you are 3 years younger - but those were the days.... Commentary used to visualize us the run up of Denise lilee and Jeff Thompson - hope you still remember the 270 + innings of Simpson - our great Sunny Gavaskar and .... never ending story. 👍👍
Gavaskar was the first batsman who gave inspiration to the next generation. He scored 10000 runs as an opener without a helmet. In the instant series, he gave up all inhibitions and attacked West Indies bowlers with all types of shots. He is truly a legend. It was travesty of justice that Sachin was given Bharat Ratna ahead of Gavaskar. But he took it sportingly saying that the game of cricket was honored.
Test century in 103 balls, against the most fearsome balling attack, without using not much protection.. doesn't need any more explanation for this towering fearless genius. The game has changed with time.
The Great Sunil Gavaskar... Time when Genuine Greats played the game. So many in this one single match. Sunny, Kapil, Holding, Marshall, Viv, Lloyd etc..
I saw Gavaskar scored a century here in 3 hours and that’s this match . Usually he takes more than a day to score a century but this test was special for him . He played so quick here vengsarkar also scored century here in this innings .
The most Genuine, the most Beautifull, the most Authentic, the most Charming , Golden Era of international cricket, when every team had legends, and Players were Crickters not MODELS.....and cricket was a sport not a money making business
What a magical innings by Sunny Gavaskar. This was the defining innings of that series after Sunny failed in the first test and India miserably lost. What gesture by WI team when he scored century. Hats off to the WI team. Cricket was pure delight then.🙏
Gavaskar and vengsarkar top class batsmen at that time.i was in degree when i watched this match on television. Bbrilliant stroke play on that day by both these batsmen.still remember that match
Sunny Gavaskar had all the shots in the book and could play the hook shot as well as anyone else you care to name. For a large part of his career he curbed many of the riskier strokes mainly because the Indian team relied heavily on its batting strengths since the bowling for most part of the 80s and 90s was not good enough to get an international side out twice in a test match . It would have been a dream if he could have played in today's Indian side opening with Rohit Sharma at the other end !
Sunil Gavaskar the best indian batsman ever. This man showed his class against the mighty west indian pacers many times. How much batsmen can boast that ? Only the little genius !
Watching Gavaskar hook Malcolm Marshal for 6s and 4s was a treat of early 80s, in a black and white TV set entire friends and family members would sit together to watch India bat against deadly bowling attack of West Indies Marshal, Holding - class fast bowlers
Superb upload taking one on nostalgic trip.WI were seething after Lord's shocker and made India pay heavily.Kanpur, Ahmedabad and Calcutta tests were disasters for home team.Skipper Kapil and Gavaskar were at loggerheads, Jimmy had scoreline like Delhi's pincode,Viv had a bland series for his lofty standard s, Marshall was all over India and of course,Sunny was outstanding.
Sunil Gavaskar remains the best batsman ever: Toughest bowlers he faced. Long innings that he has played. Best compact technique. Supreme concentration. Played well when India desperate to save the match.
Unfortunately he could not win a test series for India during the decade and a half when the West Indies were at their best--he scored a hundred there a hundred there--i found out that he only scored 4 centuries against the West Indies during their time of domination of the game
Thank you for uploading such a rare video, in this test match great Sunil Gavaskar reaches the milestone of 29 test hundreds, a remarkable feat. The west Indies pace quartet was the most feared in the world of cricket. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi came to the stadium to witness the rare feat and congratulate Sunil Gavaskar personally. Commentator's were Sunil Doshi in hindi, Dr. Narottam Puri in English.
No Viv Richards, no Sachin Tendulkar, no Brian Lara. One and only Sunil manohar gavaskar is an all time greatest batsman in the history of world cricket.
You are the only one who believes that he could not help India win a test series through the decade and a half. The West Indies were at their best. individualism didn't matter much when your team kept falling shot. the West Indies won this series 3-0 I have never heard anyone claiming him to be the best ever, so this is only your personal feelings talking
Thanks for sharing! One of the greatest hundreds ever - style, efficiency of movement, range of strokes, the quality of the opposition, the world record to chase, the roaring crowd and then the simple muted acknowledgment from a man who knew very well the history he had made. I am glad I called in sick for high school that day long long time back.
always it was delight to watch gavaskar batting i still remember those were radio commentry age though tv was there butvery had that time it was wonderful experience listening to cricket commentary till the end of day and that time commentators were also good
Considering all aspects like fearsome fast bowling attack of all time, indian pitches, pace bowlers u faced while growing up, without helmet & without protective face iron grill throughout his career etc, I think Gavaskar is the Best Batsman India has ever produced
Gavaskar is the best test batsman that cricket has produced, given the coordinates you mentioned. And yes, I do remember Bradman as a great but he did not have to struggle against many of those handicaps and the only series that he had to, the 'infamous' bodyline series (Sunny faced that all his ligfe against West Indies and Australia), his average was reduced to 50!
I agree 💯% with you Sir. The modern day cricketers play with all safety gadget fittings. To face demon fast bowlers like Dennis Lille Joel Garner, Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall, Andy Roberts without helmets and any safety gadget fittings was really a great achievement. The only real difference in modern cricket is the tremendous improvement in Ground fielding, with the advent of Limited overs cricket.
one of the best 2/3 hours of test cricket that I have ever seen in last 40 years of television. only thing that beats it perhaps is Rishabh Pant's batting to win Aus series in Australia.
The best cricket team without a shadow of doubt . Absolutely annihilated the Great Indian team which won the World Cup in 1983 . Read in the magazines and now seeing in front of eyes the action unfolding. Absolutely fabulous video irrespective of the quality. Fabulous players like Marshall , Holding , Richards , Haynes etc.
Absolute annihilation is a strong word. Except for Amarnath the Indian batting did pretty well. Actually apart from the total failure in the 1st test they only lost two sessions in the series. One in Ahmedabad and other in Calcutta. Compared to other teams India was actually one of the better teams against them with Pakistan being the other
@@smvarma7 Pakistan has been the only team in 1980s which defeated at their home test at Bourda, George Town in 1988. But no doubt Sunil Gavaskar has a brilliant record against West indies.
If anyone remember the first test at Kanpur, Gavaskar bat went flying and Marshall destroyed India. Vengsarkar was the only guy who was able to bat with confidence against the almighty West Indies. Gavaskar came back with vengeance and he and Vengsarkar destroyed West Indies. India 0-3 though. Gavaskar scored 236 in Madras.
As a school boy, I used to go to our neighbour 's house to watch this match live on TV, as we did not have one at that time! It was a great feeling to watch some of it again, after a long time span of almost four decades !
My great gavaskar nobody can play like him in india he is the nber one in our country hats off to sunil gavaskar he put west Indian bowling to shambles and also all countries in the universe who are playing cricket
Sunny just murdered the fearsome trio, Marshal, Holding and Garner, to score a 100 in 93 balls! An innings which might even make King Richards proud. Sunny was all class and determination. 💓💖💓
Fantastic Counter attacking 100 from SG and also brought him on par with Don Bradman with 29 100..At 7:30 -45 ...SG last century at Kotla came too vs WI in 1979.. But SG scored another 100 (115) after that Kotla vs Australia in 1979 Oct...The last of only 2 occasion GR Vishwanath and SG scored 100 together in an innings.. first one was that famous World Record chase at POS in 1976, when we scored 403/3...SG 102, GRV 112....
In this Test Gavaskar tore Marshall apart and the West Indian bowlers as a revenge when Marshall hit Gavaskar and removed his bat from the hand. I was present at Firoz Shah Kotla ground to witness the process of
Great upload....❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍Gavaskar played like ODI batting....what a strike rate against fiery WI attack...his over all record against WI is unbeatable....🙏🙏🙏
Watching Gavaskar bat at a strike rate of over 100 in a test match, Viv Richards must be wondering "did he have an argument with his wife last night or is he drunk !!!!!"
Watching him bat is a great motivation even today as it was in 1983 against awesome West Indies.Moments of his equalling Don Bradman's hundreds was among greatest moments in life of Indians then.None can match his straight drive
Remember that match as a 17 year old, sunny pulled, hooked, cut and drove the marauding windies pacers and showed the world how to deal with them on a green top in Delhi
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar Perfect style of batting Running between the wicket is never seen by anybody Keeping hands straight with straight bat to reduce 5 feets
Heard this exploit on Radio far away in Kerala, thrilled beyond words.looking at the vedio,can only say what waste of equipment. The camera man has no clue of the nuances of the game.
Priceless upload, Gavaskar has been perhaps most successful batsman against the west indies pace battery. Though despite his batting record, india lost this six match series 3-0. As per wikipedia in one of the test match the spectator pelted with stones and rotten eggs.
The most successful batsman against the full strength pace attack of WI was Graham Gooch, he scored over 2k runs averaging 45 with 6 centuries. Gavaskar, when playing against Marshall, Garner, Holding and Roberts combined, scored 813 runs@40.65 with 3 tons. The rest 10 centuries came when the quartet hadn't even debuted, including 4 during Gavaskar's debut series in '71, rested as during the '76 tour when he scored 2 centuries or had defected to the WSC as seen during the '78-79 home series when he scored 4 centuries in 6 tests. The most successful Indian batsman against the full fledged attack was Dilip Vengasarkar with around 1500 runs@44 and 4 centuries and when touring, Mohinder Amarnath was the most successful with 700 runs@63 and 2 centuries.
I was not even born when this match was played. But got to know from others who watched the match. SUNIL GAVASKAR avoided playing the hook shot as there was risk involved and his wicket was valuable for INDIA. But just on the previous test match the bat fell down from his hand on MARSHALL'S delivery and he had to face some sarcasm. But he showed that once he decides to play the shot he could have easily managed it. That is the sign of one of the greatest player who could have controlled the game as per his thoughts.
'authoritative' doesn't cut it - scintillating knock from the little master against a brutal pace attack ! great serving of nostalgia, thank you for the upload
Though he is called as ' Little Master ' I think he is the Master of Masters !!! Facing all the fiery bowlers of world without helmet, just can't imagine !
I was in 10th standard at that time. The TV station in our city had not been started yet. I listened the radio commentary of this match ... Feeling very happy to see those moments in the video format on RU-vid after so many years. To score such a classy century against a very deadly attack shows the class of Sunil Gavaskar's batting. He was a great opening batsman.
I remember Gavaskar was in an angry mood. When he went to open the innings ,a particular section of crowd kept on chanting "tere pichae Marshal aa raha hay".Indeed, in earlier matches Gavaskar got out rather cheaply off Marshall's bowling.. Anyway, the continuous booing infuriated Sunil so much that, most uncharacteristically, he went on counterattacking the speedster Malcom Marshall and took great revenge on him.
Yes, undoubtedly Gavaskar was the best Opening batsman in the World, considering the fact that he had to play a battalion of extra-pace Fast bowlers from W.I., Pak Aus, Eng and so on and that too without wearing a helmet in his whole career
West Indies won the 6 match series 3-0. All three were innings victories. Marshall and Holding made the Indian batsmen s*it their pants in Kanpur and Kolkata. One Marshall delivery broke Gavaskar's bat and ripped it out of his hands.
look at the size of the field.. amazing.. running 3s on Indian grounds is unheard of now. I simply don't understand the logic of decreasing the field sizes for whatever crap reasons..
Innings of high quality after that failure in Kanpur. Showed WI that if he wants to he can take them on. Puzzling why he didn’t do this regularly against this same attack. Marshall was taken to the cleaners. 25 overs and 100 runs
@@rajpanchal9733 Sorry, first test Kanpur, second Delhi, then Ahmedabad, Bombay, Culcutta, then Madras. India lost alternate tests starting with Kanpur to lose series 3-0
Gavaskar is the best promoter of guthkha pan masala in India . Sales have surged 20 percent since he became brand ambassador of Kamla pasand . How many cricketers can boast of such an achievement?? Let’s salute him
SG does cop a lot of criticism for being slow.....but one needs to understand that he was the bridge between two eras of Indian batsmanship! The previous generation who believed in grafting and blunting the attack (of course Farrokh Engineers Srikanths Surinder Khannas and others were glorious exceptions) and the current generation which believes in blunting the bowling by going after them...a few losses here and there dont matter. Sunil Gavaskar himself has played quite a few aggressive innings more regularly towards the second half of his career which showed that he was continuously improving his game and adding new dimensions to it. I think Sachin Tendulkar and his generation took the next step...that of attacking the bowling and then the others have galloped forward. Ohh and btw the modelling @16:55 had begun in this era too! and SG led that movement too!
India has ever produced such batsmen whom we can proud.Gavaskar and Sachin are main.Sachin is marvellous.whether cricket records are endless but everywhere there is maths.Sachin played 200 tests and made 100 test centuries.It is unique record .
The euphoria of setting up a batsman and the ecstasy of late collapse, Maco the macho man.👍 Kapil paaji failed most of the time's as a batsman in this series particularly in his peak of the career except a half century and two quick thirty odd runs may destined the series although he was wicketless in rare occasions but most importantly Paaji removed important batsmen of WI in each and every innings but India tried many experiments in batting and bowling in this series including Navjot Singh Sidhu, later he told in a video Kapil paaji gave him a chance to represent the country, i can't forget him ❤️ Ravi Shastri decently bowled and batted in this series 😁