Sunil Gavaskar to receive BCCI’s lifetime achievement award

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.