Mumbai: Little Master Sunil Gavaskar is celebrating the golden jubilee of his iconic debut in international cricket in 2021. On Wednesday, Gavaskar revealed that he wouldn't have survived very long had it not been for a couple of "lives" given by great Sir Garfield Sobers.
Gavaskar was speaking at a 'Gift of Life' ceremony after 'Rotary Club of Bombay Airport', led by Nitin Mehta, took responsibility for congenital heart surgeries of around 150 children at the 'Shri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital'.
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"In my first Test match that I was playing, I was batting on 12 and a drive outside the off-stump and the catch went to the greatest cricketer...Garfield Sobers, it went straight to him and it poked out of his hands, I was on only 12, so I got a gift of cricketing life there," the 71-year-old said here.
"That allowed me to score a half-century and keep my place in the team for the next Test," he recalled.