The Little Master and India's first great batsman. His walkout attempt during a Test against Australia in 1981 remains one of cricket's most dramatic moments.
14 incidents documented
Australia vs India
6 January 2025
Rishabh Pant and Pat Cummins engaged in a sustained verbal war throughout the Sydney Test as India, led by stand-in captain Pant, and Australia fought for the series in the final match.
India
May 2025
Within weeks of each other in 2025, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli — India's two greatest contemporary Test batsmen — announced their retirements from Test cricket, bringing a definitive close to one of international cricket's most celebrated batting partnerships.
Australia vs India
22 November 2024
Jasprit Bumrah's astonishing 6-wicket haul at the Optus Stadium rendered Steve Smith and Australia's batting helpless, setting up one of the most emphatic Indian Test victories in Australia.
Australia vs India
29 November 2024
Mitchell Starc relentlessly targeted Shreyas Iyer with short-pitched deliveries throughout the Adelaide day-night Test, exposing a known technical weakness and forcing a cat-and-mouse battle that defined the first session of India's batting.
India vs Australia
22-23 November 2024
Acting captain Jasprit Bumrah's 8-wicket match haul at the Optus Stadium in Perth — combined with his aggressive, astute captaincy — produced one of India's most dominant Test victories on Australian soil, widely hailed as among the finest individual fast bowling performances in Test history.
India vs Australia
2021-01-19
India, decimated by injuries and playing largely reserve players, chased 328 to win at the Gabba — a ground where Australia had not lost in 32 years. Rishabh Pant hit the winning boundary off the last-but-one over, winning the series 2-1.
Australia vs India
14 December 2018
Kohli and Paine had a running battle throughout the 2018-19 series, including a shoulder bump at Perth and Paine calling Kohli the most immature captain.
India vs Pakistan and Sri Lanka
2004-03-29
Virender Sehwag scored 309 against Pakistan at Multan in 2004 and 319 against South Africa at Chennai in 2008 — the only batsman in history to score two Test triple centuries, each innings remarkable for the extraordinary strike rate at which they were scored.
India vs various
1987-03-07
Sunil Gavaskar became the first batsman in history to score 10,000 Test runs in March 1987 — completing a career of extraordinary technical excellence in which he faced some of the world's fastest bowling without a helmet in his early career.
India vs Australia
1986-09-22
Twenty-six years after Brisbane, cricket produced only its second tied Test — Dean Jones's heroic 210 through crippling heat and Dean Jones's fever, Ravi Shastri's unbeaten 48 and India needing 2 off the last over, only for Maninder Singh to be out lbw off the final ball.
India vs Pakistan
1985-04-05
Sunil Gavaskar hit the winning boundary off the last ball to give India the 1985 Rothmans Cup against Pakistan in Sharjah — the day before his 36th birthday — in an innings so dramatic that Sharjah became cricket's most celebrated neutral ground.
Australia vs India
7 February 1981
Sunil Gavaskar was given out LBW to Dennis Lillee off a ball that clearly hit his bat first. He was so furious he tried to take his batting partner Chetan Chauhan off the field with him.
Australia vs India
7 February 1981
Sunil Gavaskar was so furious with an LBW decision that he tried to take his batting partner Chetan Chauhan off the field with him in protest.
England vs Australia
1971-01-29
John Snow's sustained intimidatory bowling against the young Sunil Gavaskar during India's 1971 tour of England — deliberately targeting the 21-year-old debutant with short-pitched deliveries — tested cricket's ethical boundaries around bodyline-adjacent bowling at tail-enders.