4 most-popular Father-Son duo(trio)s who have played cricket for India

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#3. Sunil Gavaskar and Rohan Gavaskar

Sunil Gavaskar is quite simply, one of the greatest cricketers the world has ever seen. He burst into the Indian team in 1971 as a terrific opening batsman. For the next 16 years, he remained an ever-present figure, scoring mountains of runs.

He was the first man to 10,000 Test runs and broke Don Bradman’s record for the highest number of Test centuries. At the time of his retirement, Sunil held the record for the maximum runs scored in Test cricket (10,122) and the maximum number of centuries (34), both of which were eventually broken by Sachin Tendulkar.

Rohan Gavaskar

Sunil’s son Rohan, played 11 ODIs for India in 2004, after which he never returned to the squad. Unlike his father, he was a middle-order batsman and a useful left-arm spinner, but the expanse of talent in the Indian squad by that time made him retreat to the sidelines. Needless to say, Rohan will have to, rather harshly, bear the mark of being the not-so-famous son of a famous father.