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He is renowned as the greatest opening batsman in the history of world cricket. He has the record of 34 Test centuries which was eventually broken by Sachin. He has played a total of 125 test matches with a total of 10,000+ runs with a batting average of 51.12 and a top score of 236. As far as the shorter version of the game is concerned he has played a total of 108 matches with 3092+ runs ,batting average of 35.13 and top score of 103. Gavaskar captained the Indian team from 1970 to 1980 though his performance as captain was like a roller coaster ride consisting of tremendous wins and tragic losses. Gavasker had some mind blowing techniques against fast bowlers. His ODI debut was 13july 1974 v England and his last test was v West Indies in 1987. Gavaskar was awarded the prestigious Padma Bhushan award in 1994.