{"id":1031,"date":"2020-07-10T14:09:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T08:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=22865"},"modified":"2020-07-10T14:09:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T08:39:05","slug":"happy-birthday-sunil-gavaskar-wishes-pour-in-as-legendary-batsman-turns-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/happy-birthday-sunil-gavaskar-wishes-pour-in-as-legendary-batsman-turns-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Sunil Gavaskar: Wishes pour in as legendary batsman turns 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Gavaskar, the former Indian skipper, is celebrating his 71st birthday on Friday, 10 July. Messages poured in on social media to wish the legend on his big day.<\/p>\n<p>Gavaskar is the first Indian batsman to reach 10,000 Test runs and also first to score centuries in both innings of a Test thrice.<\/p>\n<p>International Cricket Council wished legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar, sharing his picture where he is seen batting. The Council shared the player\u2019s statistics and said Gavaskar is the first Indian fielder to claim 100 Test catches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udca5 First batsman to score 10,000 Test runs<br \/>\ud83d\udca5 First batsman to score centuries in both innings of a Test thrice<br \/>\ud83d\udca5 Held the record for most number of Test tons until 2005<br \/>\ud83d\udca5 First India fielder to claim 100 Test catches<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar \ud83c\udf89 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eyMqeSf54n\">pic.twitter.com\/eyMqeSf54n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1281415350589030400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Board of Cricket Council in India wrote, \u201cWorld Cup winner, First batsman to score 10,000 Test runs, Most number of runs in debut Test Series \u2013 774. Happy Birthday to the former #TeamIndia captain and batting legend, Sunil Gavaskar.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd38 World Cup winner \ud83c\udfc6<br \/>\ud83d\udd38 First batsman to score 10,000 Test runs \ud83d\udc4f<br \/>\ud83d\udd38 Most number of runs in debut Test series \u2013 7\u20e37\u20e34\u20e3 \ud83d\ude4c  <\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday to the former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> captain and batting legend, Sunil Gavaskar! \ud83c\udf82 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CW7ZYLX4aa\">pic.twitter.com\/CW7ZYLX4aa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1281446485423321088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cricketer Kuldeep Yadav shared a throwback picture of Sunil Gavaskar and wrote, \u201cHappy birthday to the legend, #SunilGavaskar sir. You have inspired a generation to take up the sports. Wishing you good health & happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy birthday to the legend, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SunilGavaskar?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SunilGavaskar<\/a> sir. You have inspired a generation to take up the sports. Wishing you good health & happiness. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y0WfaEDLcO\">pic.twitter.com\/Y0WfaEDLcO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kuldeep yadav (@imkuldeep18) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imkuldeep18\/status\/1281472780303646720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImRaina\/status\/1281444681612693504<\/p>\n<p>Former Indian cricketer Wasim Jaffer also shared a black and white picture of Gavaskar resting his bat on his shoulder and wrote, \u201cHappy 71st Birthday to the little master. The icon, legend, inspiration and one of the most khadoos batsman of his time. He inspired generation to take up the game. #SunilGavaskar.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy 71st Birthday to the little master. The icon, legend, inspiration and one of the most khadoos batsman of his time.<br \/>He inspired generation to take up the game.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SunilGavaskar?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SunilGavaskar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sabo2IdkFh\">pic.twitter.com\/Sabo2IdkFh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WasimJaffer14\/status\/1281471786371227648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ex cricketer Mohammad Kaif also wished Gavaskar and wrote, \u201c\u201dHappy Birthday Sunny bhai. Grew up listening about his legendary tales of batting without a helmet. Now fortunate enough to know him & hear those stories from the man himself. The man is always at home in West Indies\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy birthday, Sunny bhai.<\/p>\n<p>Grew up listening about his legendary tales of batting without a helmet. Now fortunate enough to know him & hear those stories from the man himself.<\/p>\n<p>The man is always at home in the West Indies \ud83d\ude0a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/usiz7PawhO\">pic.twitter.com\/usiz7PawhO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MohammadKaif\/status\/1281445988771590144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-desc \">\n<div class=\"inner-copy\">\n<p>According to a report by <em>TOI<\/em>, Sunil Gavaskar, on the occasion of his birthday, has decided to sponsor heart surgeries for 35 children ar Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital for Child Heart Care at Kharghar in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>The cricketer did the same act of kindness of saving lives of children in his last birthday. He chooses the number 35 since it is the number of his centuries he scored in India, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Gavaskar was part of the Indian squad when the team for the first time won the World Cup in the year 1983. The iconic batsman has also received the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan award for his contribution to Indian cricket.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar turns 71 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":24163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"3 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}