Happy Birthday Sunil Gavaskar: Celebrating The Little Master's Top Test Knocks

Gavaskar Turns 75 Today

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220 Against West Indies (1971)

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236* Against West Indies (1983)

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221* Against England (1979)

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102 Against West Indies (1976)

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166 Against Pakistan (1980)

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