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Naresh Kumar Sevak (NK Sanatan)
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Sunil Gavaskar: The Giant Test Opening Batsman !

★The Little Master But The Tallest In Indian Test Cricket★

Happy Birthday
To Sunny the great !!

*The Master Plaster As The Opening Batsman : The Sole Wizard SM Gavaskar *

[ My Eulogy On the Indian Batting magician Sunny Gavaskar On His 72nd Birth Day ]

Since 1978 the year I got familiar
Yes with the persona of Indian Cricket Sunny the peculiar
I reckoned him at my adolescent days
Yeah one of the batting greats

Yes through the newspapers,and radio
And the brilliant commentary of S Doshi to have sweet Hindi piano
And Ananant Chaturvedi the English lautate’s vocal
And special praise by Raj Singh Dungarpur the principal administrator

Yeah ours local hero of Dungapur from a princely state before freedom
And the BCCI President the then with decorum
Yeah the formal prince from Dungarpur Royal Dynasty
Who accolades on Sunny’s greatness

Yeah Sunny who indeed blazz as
the Sun
Wow with his extraordinary batting art with huge runs
There is no one who could match in the mart
Highly talented opening batsman from Indian salt

Who trains in Vijay Merchant’s textual cricket academy
And can be said the dumy of Viji
Whose domestic average is second highest after great Don
Gavaskar registers his entry with the bang

As an opener he attracts cricket world and gave panick to the bowlers
But earns their respect
Though he was fully talented
But luck and opportunity are all essential
Yes for any kind of great success
We know the luck always favour the braves
And Gavaskar too graced by great Gary Soberse
Yeah not intendedly but naturally
Oh yes he the great fielder
But in cricket it happens generally whether you great or an ordinary
And we know young Gavaskar endorses out the destiny and opportunity with great passion
He stuns the cricket world by his Bradmansque bastion
And wow on his great show
Yeah the Calispo is created and sung
Gavaskar great,great Gavaskar ….
After that he becomes the hero of the nation
And the villain for the West Indies
And the fear of the bowlers
Yes he was tough to make out
Wow so compact , so patientful ,so stylish ,so bold
By his great defense and temperament bowlers were depressed and harassed
Through out his career remains dazzling
But being a mere man he sees bad some phases
Yes particularly in England he struggles for runs
But his marathon Herculean innings comes in England
Yes at the Oval his 221 one is greatest and bestest ever
In my view the greatest innings from india
Yes above VVS Laxman
Why because that is played
But not in the sheer pressure
Because india had nothing to lose in that match
And that was mighty Australia
Yes was unbeaten from 49 Test
In the 1st innings Sachin,Rahul,Sourabh remain unsuccessful
And VVS played 49 runs innings in the 1st innings when the team had nothing to lose
So VVS plays freely
In the 2nd innings india was followed on
And at the beginning great and backbone if india team
Alas got out so cheaply
So VVS joins Rahul Dravid
And both play all freely
Because india was in great trouble
And nothing to lose except one innings defeat
But it was the dynasty of India
And hot and humidity atmosphere plays its role
And due to it the bowlers of Australia
Yeah like greatest G McGrath ,J Gilllespie,S Warne
Oh become the helpless bowlers
Yes lose the effectiveness
And both indian duo play at per their will
Yes atmosphere plays its role
In England the coldness
And in india the hotness
And the miracle happens
Yes that Harbhajan gets dangerous
And india get a historical win
And due to the ICC expert criteria
Yes due to winning cause
VVS Laxman’s innings is considered in best five
But in losing cause Sunny’s 221 is the greatest innings
In lost cause there was no Sunny’s fault
Think if Harbhajan couldn’t get feat
Yes VVS Lakshman’s innings wasn’t considered as the greatest
But alas Harbhajan’s great t bowling feat isn’t considered in great spells
Because that was the pitch that helped
Such as Sunny has played great knocks
His 102 against mighty Soberse Eleven
That awarded a historical win
And his 149 against flurry and fiery attack in the West Indies soil wow
And despite hit at his forehead yes remains
unaffected
And played a great knock against the quality bowling attack

And his last Test Innings of 94 wow a great innings on the terrific spin track
And yet another feat in the losing match
And his last career innings at historic Lords
Wow 180 the buzzing innings ever in the MCC Centenary World Eleven
Yeah in the World Eleven his performance remained poor
Yeah not as per his great credentials
But overall his performance is jealousful
His 34 Test hundreds was feat once and will remain ever
His 10 thousand runs ‘ milestone wow
Sunny was the first batsman
Who became the fear for opponentd
And the rivals since then not took india lightly
Indian bowling attack remained timid and poor
But Gavaskar’s innings made difference
And the surely defeats changed into draw
Some critics criticize Gavaskar to say selfish
But it’s a partial say
There was no alternate except dragging the match at the draws
His snail like 36 n.o . in the 1st inaugural ODI World Cup 1975
Yes criticized by the cricket world
But think plus 300 runs Target
Was possible to survive against quality bowling
It was futile and not 183 that can be defended
And at that time Sunny didn’t mould in the ODI style and skill
Yes ones who criticize Gavaskar for that slowest innings
Then except him how many runs rest of the batsmen added
The team got all out and it shows
If Gavaskar would hit century to have 100 SR
Then the team would be got out soon
Mind that that was not Zimbabwe of 1983
And he goes at the 5th down
23 for 5
It means the next coming unspecified batsmen have nothing to lose anything
So can be played freely
But gavaskar like batsman if would make 70 of 70 then the victory wouldn’t be possible
But okay all ones have right to put their stand
And ultimately say he remained role model of many cricketers
The greatest Sachin is one of them
And the Test match point of view
Yes Sunny is the greatest batsman of india
And being the
opener his stature as the batter is very high
He was the centurion
And once he jocked about the age to his partner Chetan Chouhan
And Chetan says you the centurion and I am not
And at the early demise of Chetan Sunny reveals this chat
Against greatest and dangerous D Lillee
His 70 was a great innings
And due to partial umpiring he was hunted intensionally
Otherwise on that day the world cricket would seen a big century
But alas had to see an evil phase
The world knows Sunny wasn’t guilty and it was provoking of Aussies
At that moment the captain Greag Chapple had to say to the umpire
Yes it was sharp bat and pad
And I recommend change your decision
And like great GR Vishvanath
The history would be proud and praise on G Chappal
But no one can avoid happening
Yes if it is decuded by Almighty
My warmth and heartiest congratulations to the legend of india
Who is the 1st choice ever for the World Eleven by the experts
Yes as an opener
Thus it’s great vanity and pride for the indians
That two cricketers whose worthy inclusion is in the all time great World Eleven
Yeah Sunny and Sachin
Yes one is master plaster
And second his the master-blaster
My metaphor for Sunny is introduced firstly in the world
Against Sunny thanks for givingv great thrilling entertainment as the opener
As a petty batsman you were my role model, ideal
Opportunity makes person great
And I was not destine for feat
But it is great pleasure and pride for me
Yes that my one cricketer compatriot called me Sunny Gavaskar
Yes for my great batting technique as an opener .
*My cordial emotion to my cricket hero dedicated to Sunny
SIR
*NK sanatan