Five Tributes To The Little Master

1. Keith Miller, when asked how he would have bowled to Sunil Gavaskar, replied: 'I'd have stood in the slips and let others bowl'.
2. 'A pocket-sized battleship armed with an impenetrable defence and astonishing gunpowder. The bigger the battle, the better the performance,' was how Sir Colin Cowdery described the batsman.
3. 'The Indian combined Boycott's steadiness and Greenidge's ability to keep the runs flowing,' said Ian Botham.
4.'I would have considered it an honour to play cricket with him,' observed Sir Don Bradman.
5.'I have a feeling that if he had been born English or Australian, many of the better judges would have been tempted to bracket him with Bradman,' opined Sir Len Hutton

Left: Sunil Gavaskar, with Ajit Wadekar, on his first tour of England.

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Image courtesy Ajit Wadekar