Sunil Gavasker Silence Critics After 12 Years!
Once Called Snail Has One Of The Fastest Test And ODI Hundred !
[On Sunil Gavaskar ‘s Slowest ODI
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Sunil Gavaskar who entered in the worthiest Test cricket arena as the specialist opening batsman but when was the high class reputation was earned by him and established as the reknown opening batsman in the
World from India suddenly the ICC introduced the First Instant or ODI World Cup of 60 overs and in the inaugural World Cup ODI,1975 between India vs host England,England piled up a huge target yeah 334/4 run and in the reply India surrendered and one sided at the one end Sunny remained not out on 36 by faced off 174 deliveries and for that slowest innings he was humiliated by the cricket fraternity though with him Brijesh Patel who was known as an attacking batsman could also not show any mettle and passion. To see the big target and measuring India’s batting strength thinking ungettable Sunny decided to take it as the practice because before it india was bundled out only on 42 in the Historic Lords so it was better not to chase the Himalayan Target and bundled out timidly in the reckless effort it was good thinking to toil out the
British bowlers and fielders and sweatened out well .That was newer entertaining format and Sunny did not mould him in that nature at that time and didn’t take that seriously. And through out the career he was cursed and pointed for that show by the neo lobby who preferred hiphop not class and for the creeping Sunny too remained silent and answerless to have this point or strategy . But later he adopted flamboyant style at some occasion and showed his morale high and earned reputation and mitigated that defemation and blot by hitting one of the fastest Test hundred in 1983~84 agaist the West Indies that was under great captain (Clive Loyd) and one of the most formidable fast bowling line up that was enriched and equipped with spearheaded like speedster Michael Holding, Melcom Marshell,Wayne
Daniel ,Winston Davis and part time spinner like Larry Gomez and Viv Richards.
That was the Delhi Test,Firoz Shah Kotla Stadium (Now Arun Jatley where he faced off
only 94 balls and completed a brilliant aggressive hundred.And that was his record Test hundred
yeah equalled to Sir Don Bradman ‘s 29th hundred.
At that period that century rested at top 11th in the balls conceren.Yes J Darling was the 1st batter who met hundred under 100 balls yeah completed century only on 85 deliveries then England ‘s GL Jassop met the feat by facing only 76 balls then one of the most attacking batsmen of the era Jack Gregory broke the Jassop ‘s record and slammed dazzling hundred only on 67 balls and the feat in the balls’ count was at the top place that stood up to 1986 when Vivian Richards played the explossive Test innings who scored 100 only on 56 balls but J Gregory ‘s feat still rests at the number 5th place . And thus remained as the fastest centurion of Test World up to 1986 .
During that era (1877 to 1986) Jassop, Ray Lindwal, DT Lindsey, RL Taylor, Roy Feedricks, R Hadlee
Mazid Khan, Clive Loyd ,I Bothom,
Kapil Dev , Zaheer Abbas,Sunil
Gavaskar were the member of the fast hundreds’ club but remained fast and fastster and couldn’t overtook J Gregory’s record of 67 balls hundred.
Yes see the shooters the
Balls and Year wise ~
1.V Richards 56
(1985~86
- J Gregory 67 (1921~22)
3.R Fredricks 71 (1975~76)
4.Mazid Khan 74
(1976~77)
5.Kapil Dev 74 {1986~87)
6.GL Jessop 76
(1902)
7.BR Taylor 83 (1968~ 69}
8.Joe Darling 85
(1898)
9.Clive Loyd 85 (1974~75)
10.R Hadlee 88 (1979~80) - I Bothom 86
(1981)
12.I Bothom 86
(1981)
13.Kapil Dev 86 (1981~82)
14.R Lindwal 89
(1946~47)
15.Zaheer Abbas 94 (1982~83)
16.S Gavaskar (1983~84)
17.DT Lindsey 95
(1966~67)
Yes since the start of Test Cricket (1877 to 1986) Seventeen fastest Test hundreds came in its way that were scored under 95 balls.
It was Joe Darling of Australia who credited to score the first fastest hundred that was completed on 85 deliveries and indeed that was a great brisky achievement or performance by the Aussie.Joe Darling was an opening batsman who achieved this feat in 1898 yeah in the 12 year after start the authentic Test format or game. For his hundred Joe Darling took only 85 balls and at that time it was a heroic task because that was the bowling dominated era and batting was a big challenge the then or rather tougher than today. After Joe Darling it was GL Jassop of England who broke the record of Joe Darling just after four years (1902) when he made it only on 76 balls. And the records are always unsafe and have to break once or while or later or sooner and the day came but this time after twenty years when the Aussie star allrounder J Gregory slammed the hundred only on 67 balls and established the handsome record that seemed unassaiable and the fact proven right when it was broken after 63 long years.Yeah sometimes the record of J Gregory seemed in danger when in 1974~75 a dashing left handed opener from the West Indies Roy Fredricks cracked the Aussies ‘
formidable bowling attack (D Lillee-JThompson Max Walker,Garry Gulmour Speed Customers and A Millett an specialist spinner and Ian Chapple a part time bowler
) there at Perth when he faced only 71 deliveries and completed the smartest hundred of the cricket history.
Joe Darling who graced the feat the first was also left handed opener.Thus J Gregory ‘s record remained untouched up to 60 plus years.After that an Aussie and Kiwi (Ray Lindwal and RL Taylor) threatened to break Gregory’s feat but could finish to take 85 and 83 balls and Gregory’s feat remained untouch .Then the left handed great from the West Indies batter Clive Loyd played an aggressive innings against India but consumed 85 balls such as Pakistan ‘s majestic Khan Mazid Khan played an aggressive knock but also took 74 balls and thus J Gregory’s record remained undefeatable.After that Kapil Dev,Richard Hadlee and Ian Bothom became threatening when they were as Tsunami but coudn’t touch the mark of J Greagory becayse these thrice allrounders scored hundred on 74, 88 and 86 balls respectively. But as I said each record has mortal nature, J Gregory ‘s record had been surpassed by Vivian Richards who is known as the maurader of the ball and Viv Richards broke J Gregory ‘s long and rich record in 1985~86
1.B MacCullum (54)
2.Misbah Ul Haq (56)
3.A Gilchrist (57)
4.S Chandrapaul (69
5.D Warner ( 69)
6.C Gayle (70)
7.C de Grandhomme (71)
8.M Azaharuddin (74)
9.B MacCullum (74 )
10.AB Devilliers (75)
11.Brian Lara (77)
12.J Baistraw (77) - S Afridi (78)
14.S Afridi (78)
15.V Sehwag (78)
16.B McCullum (78)
17.D Warner (78)
18.C Gayle (79)
19.C Gayle (80)
20.Sarfraz Ahemed (80)
21.Harry Brook (80)
22.M Jaywardhane (81)
23.Kamran Akmal (81)
24.LR Taylor ( 81)
25.B Lara (82)
26.D Vettori (82)
27.D Warner (82)
28.A Gilchrist (84)
29.A Gilchrist (84)
30.M Hayden (84)
31.S Dhawan (85)
32.B Stroke (85)
33.C Cairns (86)
34.Wasim Akram (86)
35.A Gilchrist (86)
36.Johnson (86)
37.H Pandya (86)
38.J Crawley (86)
39.V Sehwag (87)
40.V Sehwag (87)
41.H Amla (87)
42.S Dhawan (88)
43.M Azharuddin (88)
44.B Lara (88)
45.K Pieterson (88)
46.R Pant (89)
47.S Jaysurya (90)
48.V Sehwag (90)
49.V Sehwag (90)
50.Olly Pope (90)
51.A Gilchrist (91)
52.A Razzaq (92)
53.DL Smith (93) (West Indies )
54.V Sehwag (93)
55.MS Dhoni (93)
56.T Dilshan (93)
57.D Warner (93)
58.A Gilchrist (94)
59.B Maccullum (94)
60.Tamim Iqbal (94)
61.Somya Sarkar (94)
62.J Rhodes (95)
63.S Pollock (95)
64.C Gayle (96)
65.S Afridi (96)
66.JE Taylor (97)(West Indies)
67.V Sehwag (97)
68.Kaluwitherna (98)
69.Mominul Haq (98)
70.LRPL Taylor (99) (New Zealand)
71.KDK Vithanage (99)
72.Tamim Iqbal (100)
Thus 72 batsmen of so called modern cricket era scored the fastest hundreds. Here maximum criteria of the balls is 100 to complete the hundred run. And Tamim Iqbal (up to 2022) of Bangladesh is the batter who finished his hundred to take naximum balls yeah 100 and the 72nd batsman overall of ignited club . Brendon McCullum is the batsman who took the lowest deliveries for his hundred yeah only 54 and the record holder of the fastest Test hundred. Yeah to make fastest hundred in the Test is indeed very rich task because there is no overs quota for the bowling ,no field restriction,no free hit, and zero strategy due to limitation. So the minimum balls’ hundreds credited to flamboyants are with best Ten rank, yeah as–
1.B McCullum 54
2.Viv Richards 56
2.Misbaul Haq 56
4.A Gilchrist 57
5.J Gregory 67
6.S Chandrapaul 69
6.D Warner 69
8.C Gayle 70
9.Grandhomme 71
10.R Fredricks 71j Jack Gregory’s worthy record reigned for 63 years while the record of Viv Richards was equalled by Pak great Misba Ul Haq in 2014 (yeah after 30 years) while the common standing record of Viv and Misbah was broken in 2015 by B McCullum .So Viv Richards and Misbalhulhaq’s common credited record debited very soon yes only in one year and that hijacker is the dashing New Zealander Brendon McCullum and very earlier (November,2022) Harry Brook (Englander)played one of the fastest hundred run ‘s innings who took 80 balls.
Modern Era ‘s 10 fastest hundreds–
1.B McCullum 54
2.Misbahul Haq 56
3.A Gilchrist 57
4.S Chandrapal 69
4.D Warner 69
5.C Gayle 70
6.Grandhomme 71
7.Azharuddin 74
7.McCullun 74
8.AB Villiers 75
9.Brian Lara77
9.J Baistraw77
10.S Afridi 78
Here under the title Sunny Gavaskar who was mocked for his snail like;slowest innings who played a 94 balls ‘ hundred runs innings in the Test match against his nature and style and we know the Test format where is balls consumption isn’t matter and to play fast is risky so there the batsman has to take time to build up his innings.Sunny played one of the most explossive ODI innings (the then) in the World Cup 1987 and the spectators saw him in a different mood and stunned and enjoyed a lot.Yes that innings was against New Zealand there at Nagpur in which he completed his hundred run only on 85 balls and scored 103 n.o. with 117.04 RSR ( Point to be noted that 20.68 run rate Sunny had in that infamous and irritating 36 runs’ innings there at Lords ,1975) and gave answer to those lobby who condemned his slowest 36 run innings yeah after 12 years and before it in the Test match in 1985 yeah 10 years . And on some occasions he played some quick short and big knocks in ODIs and remained dominant architect of
India’s win and particular win in the West Indies in 1983 right before the World Cup1983 (29 March,1983) His 90 ( in 117 balls as the opener hit out 8 fours RSR 76.92 and missed a brilliant sparking hubdred by only 10 runs because of Run Out ) versus the West Indies in the West Indies that paved the path of India ‘s first ODI victory in overseas.His compact innings gave big foundation and the then india ‘s captain Kapil Dev endorsed out the opportunity with partnened Sunny and made building or scallop or crenel by playing a fiery and reckless innings of 72 runs with 7 fours and 3 sixes with dazzlibg SR of 189.47 there at Albion Sports Complex Stadium,Berbice,Guyana,West Indies and due to that heroic show india could set a good target (282/5 in alloted 47 overs quota) against the mighty West Indies and registered the maiden win abroad and that great win encourage the indian that the mighty Clive Loyd and Company isn’t impregnable. And indian bowlers Kapil and Bulwinder Sindhu along with Venkat Raghawan ,Ravi Shastri and Madan Lal Sharma restricted West Indies batters on 255/9 and registered and enjoyed their first ever victory there at the land of West Indies so called overseas.
Since 1975 the first World Cup to 1987 the fourth World Cup total four editions had taken place in which 27 hundreds have been stricken by the batters. If see the Runs ‘ strike rate of all the hundreds then see the highest strike Rated hundreds ~
1.Viv Richards (144.80)
2.Kapil Dev
(126.81)
3.Clive Loyd (120.00)
4.S Gavaskar (117.04)
5.D Gower
(108.33)
*NK Sanatan