Like a calypsonian sang, Sunil Gavaskar was a genuine master!

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Sunil Gavaskar with grandson Vivaan during Cricket Club of India where a batting fable was felicitated on Sunday. Pic/SURESH KARKERA 

“A Lovely day for cricket. Blue skies and peaceful zephyr …” The opening lines in Lord Relator’s calypso on Sunil Gavaskar hold loyal during a Wankhede Stadium on Sunday.

Later in a evening, a difference “Gavaskar, a genuine master” that form a beef of a calypso, sat good with Gavaskar’s acceptance debate after he was conferred a lifetime feat endowment by a Sports Journalists’ Association of Mumbai (SJAM) during a Cricket Club of India. Relator’s calypso was played out before a fate non-stop on a function.

Gavaskar had his run-ins with a media in his personification days, though he was elegant of their efforts in a game’s promotion. He remembered his initial journal writing when he was mentioned as G Sunil for his dominant 30 while representing St Xavier’s school.
The SJAM is celebrating a half century and it’s 50 years given Gavaskar played his lass first-class match. Members of Gavaskar’s family were in assemblage during a CK Nayudu Hall.

His childhood friends too, among them, Milind Rege who removed how his friends and he attempted all to get immature Gavaskar out in their Grant Road gully games. Son Rohan — expressive and romantic — certified that he had to contend there was no vigour whenever someone asked him about a cricketing weight he carried being a son of a cricket legend. But there was no vigour from his iconic dad. That ‘papa’ is a really caring grandfather was also suggested by Rohan, who credited him for always remembering to wish his grandchildren — Reha (11) and Vivaan (6) on their birthdays.

Guts and Gavaskar went palm in palm and Rohan supposing an good instance of his brag when ‘papa’ stopped a hatred host from aggressive a family during Worli Sea Face during a 1993 riots. The family emerged unhurt when Gavaskar challenged a host to do to him what they wanted to do to a trusting ones.

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