10 iconic pictures from India's cricketing history

#2 The 10,000th run

Gavaskar scampers through for his 10,000th

Sunil Gavaskar was the original Indian “little-master”. From taking on the West Indies without a helmet to scoring runs in a heap, Gavaskar had done it all. But the Mt. Everest like summit of 10,000 runs was yet to be scaled. It was left to Gavaskar to show the way. And it had to come against arch-rivals Pakistan. In the fourth Test at Ahmedabad, when “Sunny” scampered through for his 63rd run the summit was scaled. The world had a new record and India a moment that would last a lifetime.