Sunil Gavaskar has not scored as many runs in his international career as the number of days that have passed since that big incident.

The history of cricket is full of many amazing incidents. One of those incidents is related to Sunil Gavaskar. However, so much time has passed since that incident that even if we add the runs of Sunil Gavaskar's entire international career, it would still not be that many. That incident happened on March 7, 38 years ago. This is the reason for us to mention it. We are talking about that one run that came from Sunil Gavaskar's bat on March 7, 1987, after which the game had to be stopped for 20 minutes.

On 7 March 1987, Gavaskar became the world's first ten thousand

The ground was Motera in Ahmedabad and India and Pakistan were face to face in the match. In that Test match being played in the year 1987, the world got the first batsman to score 10000 runs, whose name was Sunil Gavaskar. Gavaskar, famous as Little Master, wrote the script of his 10000th run in Test cricket on the ball of Pakistani bowler Ijaz Faqih.

After that historic 1 run, the game was halted for 20 minutes.

Sunil Gavaskar scored 63 runs in the first innings of the test match against Pakistan. During this inning, as soon as Gavaskar, who was playing at 57 runs, ran for a single to take his 58th run, he created history by completing the 10000th run of his test career. After Gavaskar created this history, the entire scene of the ground changed in no time. The atmosphere of celebration was so dominant that due to it, the game had to be stopped for 20 minutes after Gavaskar scored that one historic run.

India-Pakistan test was a draw.

Gavaskar achieved the feat of scoring 10000 runs in the 212th innings of his 124th Test. However, there was nothing special in that Test match played between India and Pakistan except Gavaskar's 10000 runs. This is because that Test match ended in a draw. That was the 11th consecutive Test between the two countries that ended in a draw.

International run 13214, 13880 days to the event

Sunil Gavaskar has scored 13214 runs in his entire international career, out of which 10122 runs are in Test cricket. He has 3094 runs in ODIs. But, 13880 days have passed since the incident of the game being stopped for 20 minutes after that 1 run that made Gavaskar the world's first 10 thousand. That incident happened on 7 March 1987 and now it is 7 March 2025.