Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar will be conferred
the Col C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award at the annual BCCI awards
function.
The award comprises a trophy, citation and a cheque for Rs 25 lakh.
The BCCI’s Col C.K. Nayudu Award Committee
met in Mumbai on Thursday Oct 25,2012 and decided to confer the honour on the
legendary opener, a release from BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale said.
Sunil Gavaskar represented India in 125 Tests from 1970-71 to
1986-87, scoring a record 774 runs in his debut series in the West
Indies.
Sunil Gavaskar was the first batsman -
- to score 10,000 runs in Tests
- to play 100 consecutive Tests
- to score hundreds in each innings of a Test thrice and
- to surpass Sir Don Bradman’s tally of 29 Test centuries.
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