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 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.
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.