Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Chennai Super Kings
18 May 2026
Ishan Kishan mimicked blowing a whistle at the Chepauk crowd and gestured for fans to leave after SRH's five-wicket win over CSK — a celebration that divided the cricket world, with R. Ashwin criticising him and Sunil Gavaskar defending him.
India, Pakistan
1987-03-07
Sunil Gavaskar reached 10,000 Test runs against Pakistan at Ahmedabad in March 1987, becoming the first batsman in history to cross the mark and recalibrating cricket's notion of longevity.
India
1 March 1981
Sunil Gavaskar became the first Indian batsman to reach 6,000 Test runs in 1981, during India's overseas tour of Australia and New Zealand — joining the elite group of Bradman, Sobers, Cowdrey, Hammond, Hutton and Boycott. The milestone came at Basin Reserve, Wellington on 1 March 1981.
India vs West Indies
7-12 April 1976
India chased down 403 to win at Port of Spain in April 1976, finishing on 406/4 to claim the third Test by six wickets — the second-highest successful fourth-innings chase in Test history at the time, after only Bradman's 1948 Invincibles. Gavaskar 102, Mohinder Amarnath 85, Gundappa Vishwanath 112, and Brijesh Patel 49 not out drove the chase across the final two days against a four-spinner West Indian attack. The result so embarrassed Clive Lloyd that, three weeks later at Kingston, he selected four genuine fast bowlers — the moment generally identified as the start of the West Indian pace strategy of the next two decades.
India vs West Indies
March-April 1971
Sunil Gavaskar made his Test debut for India in the West Indies in March 1971 and scored 774 runs in four Tests at an average of 154.80, a debut series aggregate that has not been beaten in the more than five decades since. He made centuries in three successive Tests and a double-century-plus-century pair at Port of Spain in the final match. India won the series 1-0 — their first ever rubber win in the Caribbean.