Sunil Gavaskar was born in a Maharashtrian family. His parents are Manohar and Meenal Gavaskar. (In picture) Sunil Gavaskar with his parents on his arrival from the West Indies tour in 1971.

Sunny Gavaskar tied the knot with Marshneil, who is the daughter of a leather industrialist from Kanpur, on September 23, 1974. (In picture) Sunil Gavaskar with his wife Marshneil at a felicitation function.

In picture: Sunil Gavaskar practising at Kolkata's Eden Gardens ground during the 1978-79 Test series against West Indies.

In picture: Sunil Gavaskar delivering a speech after receiving the World Championship of Cricket trophy after beating Pakistan in the final at Melbourne in 1985.

In picture: Sunil Gavaskar walking out to open the batting with his partner Chetan Chauhan during the 1978-79 Test series against West Indies.

In picture: Asif Iqbal with Sunil Gavaskar during a Test match.

In picture: Dilip Vengsarkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Ghulam Shaikh and Vithal Patil before a Kanga League match at CCI in the late 70s.

In picture: Australian captain Bob Simpson celebrates his country's 3-2 Test series win in Adelaide, 1978, with Sunil Gavaskar and India captain Bishan Singh Bedi.

Sunil Gavaskar with then Indian team captain Ajit Wadekar and actress Waheeda Rehman at a felicitation function after India's 1971 victory over West Indies.

In picture: Sunil Gavaskar interviews Sachin Tendulkar for his talk show. The two have often been compared with each other. Both Gavaskar and Tendulkar have the nickname 'Little Master'.

In picture: Sunil Gavaskar interviews Australian fast bowler Jeff Thomson for an Indian magazine.

In picture: Sunil Gavaskar with a young Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli during a felicitation function for the duo's 664-run partnership for Shardashram school in 1988.

In picture: Kapil Dev, P.R. Mansingh, the Indian team manager of 1983, and Sunil Gavaskar at the Wankhede stadium in 1999.  Gavaskar was part of the 1983 World Cup-winning squad led by Kapil Dev.

In picture: Then Pakistan President, the late General Zia-Ul-Haq, presenting Sunil Gavaskar with a carpet for his 100th Test in Lahore, 1984.

In picture: Dean Jones, Allan Border, Sunil Gavaskar and Milind Rege sharing a light moment at the Bombay Gymkhana.

In his 16-year-long career, Sunil Gavaskar played 125 Tests scoring 10,122 runs at an average of 51.12 with 34 hundreds and 45 fifties. He was the first batsman to ever cross 10,000 runs in Test cricket. Gavaskar also played 108 ODIs with 3,092 runs including a century and 27 fifties. Gavaskar's record of most Test centuries (34) stood for almost 2 decades. To date, he is considered one of the finest batsmen to have ever played the game. Pic/ AFP