Mumbai: You can never be tired of listening to anecdotes revolving around the life of Sunil Gavaskar. It was therefore interesting to hear a few Gavaskar stories during celebrations of the 76th anniversary of the legendary drummer, organized by the Legends’ Club at the Cricket Club of India on Wednesday evening. Yajurvindra Singh recalled an incident during the 1979 Lord test between India and England when a steward refused entry has Gavaskar at the Lord’s emblematic cricket stadium because the great cricket had no “pass”, even if he was a superstar at that time. “It turns out that Gavaskar had promised passes to the Lord’s test. So, he got out of the Lord’s door to give the passes to his friend while wearing slippers. However, thereafter, the intendant of Lord’s refused to let Gavaskar enter. So, I went there and I said to this security guard: “It’s Mr. Gavaskar and he will open for us. He must enter! (However), until he has no ticket or pass, the steward was not going to let him enter Lord. And Sunil had naturally forgotten his pass. So I had to ring the secretary of the club. He came and we finally made this guy understood. Although people took an autograph (Gavaskar). The Briton knew exactly who he (Gavaskar) was, but he harassed him just at the door. “” In the same Lord’s test later, Gavaskar made fun of the entire incident in his inimitable way. “We were playing against the MCC at Lord’s. I remember that Dickie Bird was the referee. To engage in a certain pleasure, Sunil had one of these ugly masks, which he wore by standing in the second shift. So, Dickie Bird (the referee) told him that” Mr. Gavaskar, you disturb the drummer. “Gavaskar replied by saying,” What a rule says that I am not allowed to wear a mask while standing in the second shift.“No, you bother everyone,” said Bird. “I don’t mind anyone. The drummer focuses on this side (the other), “said Gavaskar. “No, you bother me!” Bird answered! It was, you know, Sunil.
For the record, Gavaskar scored 42 and 59 in this test, which was drawn.Who is sunny? Yajurvindra revealed a recent meeting of SES and Gavaskar with Amicitabh Bachchan, in which the duo asked the Bollywood icon to resolve an old “quarrel” between them on whom “ rights ” of the name “ Sunny ”, because the two were affectionately called by this name. “I said to Amitabh Bachchan:” We always have this problem that we are both called “sunny”. We are trying to resolve this fight to find out who has been sunny for a very long time. I always told him that you are sunny because the English could not call you Sunil, when I was sunny, because my name Yajurvira is to be seen with the solar God. We decided that the scientist Bachchan would be the right man to approach (with this problem) and solve this problem for once and all. Unfortunately, we did it at the Sunil annual celebration, “said the 72 -year -old man. Bachchan, of course, wisely chose to let the ball “pass beyond its extinguished”, so to speak. “Bachchan was very intelligent. He made no decision. Although I told him that I watched him turn his left arm in a performing match, etc. I tried everything, but in vain because it was Sunil’s party. But I told Amitabh that he was very lucky that Sunil did not take play, although he made a film, because this hat imitates and can certainly imitate anyone. I said that if he had started playing, you should have played a cricket! “Gouilla Yajurvindra.
