7 legendary batsmen and their golden runs

#4 Sunil Gavaskar (Dec 1977 – Jan 1980) - Tests- 30, Runs- 3125, Avg- 66.48, Centuries- 13

Godfather of Indian batting

Sunil Gavaskar, as Viv Richards puts it, was the ‘Godfather of Indian batting’. Sunil Gavaskar based his batting on immense powers of concentration and would almost always be the pivot around whom India’s batting would revolve. Gavaskar scored a record 774 runs in his Debut series vs West Indies in 1971, but struggled to maintain this Bradman-esque standard of form till late 1977.

But starting from India’s tour to Australia in 1977/78, till the end of Pakistan’s tour of India in Feb 1980, Gavaskar played in 6 test series and scored more than 400 runs in all of them. No other player apart from Bradman has maintained such consistency over more than 3 test series.