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  2. Gavaskar has scored the third-highest number of centuries in Tests for India. [1] Sunil Gavaskar is a former international cricketer who represented and captained the Indian cricket team. In a career spanning over 16 years he made 35 centuries (100 or more runs) at the international level. [2] .

    No.
    Score
    Against
    Pos.
    1
    116
    2
    2
    117*
    2
    3
    124 [N 2]
    2
    4
    220 [N 3]
    2
  3. It was his 30th Test century and third double century against the West Indies, propelling him to overtake Donald Bradman's 29 test centuries record. He scored a total of 505 runs at an average of 50.50 for the series.

    • 34/45
    • 125
    • 51.12
    • 10,122
  4. Gavaskar was also a part of India's 1983 World Cup winning team, but hardly achieved the level of success he did in Test cricket in the shorter format, scoring only one hundred in over a...

  5. Sep 20, 2015 · Gavaskar did score hundreds in Australia, five of them across three tours— four visits if we consider the Rest of the World stint in 1971-72. None of these were scored when Lillee bowled.

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  6. Top records are a selection of the records (from among those listed under the Test, ODI, T20I and Combined categories) in which the player is in the top ten.

  7. His record for the highest number of Test hundreds was overtaken by Sachin Tendulkar, but statistics alone don't reveal Gavaskar's true value to India.

  8. Making his Test debut against the West Indies in March 1971, Gavaskar scored his first century in the third Test of the same series. In the final Test at Port of Spain he scored centuries in both innings of the match with scores of 124 and 220, becoming the second Indian player to perform the feat.