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Gundappa Viswanath is a former Indian cricketer who played for Karnataka and India from 1969 to 1983. He scored more than 6,000 runs in Tests and was known for his elegant and wristy batting style.
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- Male
- March 12, 1949
- India
His brother-in-law was one he held in high esteem. Gundappa Vishwanath, born in Mysore, India on Feb 12, 1949, was born around the same time as Gavaskar but made his Test debut 2 years before...
Gundappa Viswanath was the original wristy artist in Indian cricket. The batting great, who turns 69 on Monday, was the first from India to score another century after making one on Test debut...
- Whenever Viswanath scored a Test hundred… India never lost. Yes, in one of the most stunning facts of all time, India have never lost a Test match in which Viswanath scored a century.
- Bond with Sunil Gavaskar. Viswanath and Sunil Gavaskar were not only teammates but also shared a personal relationship. Gavaskar is Viswanath's brother-in-law and besides being the two mainstays of Indian batting, they are extremely close to each other.
- Always the gentleman. Viswanath believed in fair play even as his opponents didn't. In the 1979-80 Golden Jubilee Test match against England, Vishwanath called back English batter Bob Taylor as he felt he was wrongly given out by the umpire.
- That chase. Chasing a target of 400 is next to impossible today, let alone 50 years ago, but Viswanath and Gavaskar did so when India nailed down 403 against the West Indies in 1976.
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