The history of cricket is full of more than one incident. One of them is also related to Sunil Gavaskar. However, it has passed so many days that Sunil Gavaskar's entire international career runs, even if it is not so much. That incident took place 38 years ago on 7 March. Our reason for mentioning it is also the same. We are talking about 7 March 1987 that one run out of Sunil Gavaskar's bat, after which the game had to be stopped for 20 minutes.
The ground was Ahmedabad's Motra and India-Pakistan was face to face in the match. In the Test match being played in the year 1987, the world got the first batsman to score 10,000 runs, named Sunil Gavaskar. Gavaskar, popularly known as Little Master, wrote a script of his 10,000th run in Test cricket off the ball of Pakistani bowler Ij Fakih.
Sunil Gavaskar scored 63 runs in the first innings of the Test match against Pakistan. During this innings, Gavaskar, who was playing on 57 runs, ran single as soon as he ran his 58th run, completing his Test career by completing his 10,000th run. After the creation of this history of Gavaskar, the entire view of the ground changed. The atmosphere of celebration was so dominating that after that, after that one historic run of Gavaskar, the game had to be stopped for 20 minutes.
Gavaskar did wonders to score 10000 runs in the 212th inning of his 124th Test. However, in that Test match played between India and Pakistan, there was nothing special except Gavaskar's 10,000 runs. This is because that test ends on the draw. The 11th consecutive Test between the two countries, which was drawn.
Sunil Gavaskar has scored 13214 runs in his entire international career, out of which 10122 runs are in Test cricket. At the same time, he has 3094 runs in ODIs. But, after that 1 run of Gavaskar the world's first 10 Hazari, the incident of the game stopped for 20 minutes has now passed 13880 days. The incident took place on 7 March 1987 and is now 7 March 2025.
