'10000 Gavaskar': BCCI Honours India Great With Special Tribute In Mumbai HQ

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Last Updated:May 15, 2025, 16:31 IST

Sunil Gavaskar inaugurated a boardroom named "10000 Gavaskar" astatine BCCI HQ successful Mumbai.

Sunil Gavaskar astatine the BCCI HQ successful Mumbai. (Image: Screengrab)

India fable Sunil Gavaskar has inaugurated a boardroom named successful his honour astatine the Board of Control for Cricket successful India (BCCI) office successful Mumbai.

“Honouring a legend! India large Sunil Gavaskar inaugurates 10000 Gavaskar – a Board Room named successful his honour and his iconic milestone astatine the BCCI HQ successful Mumbai," the BCCI shared a video of the event, which saw the beingness of the BCCI president Roger Binny, vice-president Rajeev Shukla and caput Devajit Saikia.

“MCA is my parent and BCCI is my father. Thank you truthful much. I truly admit the accidental that I person got to beryllium what I am, acknowledgment to Indian cricket. This is simply a immense honour. I americium precise thankful to BCCI for this honour. And I would similar to springiness it each for BCCI… truthful anytime thing required of me, adjacent astatine this age, delight consciousness free…" Gavaskar said successful the video successful which helium tin beryllium seen signing a photograph of his playing days.

The batting fable was the archetypal batter to get to 10,000 Test runs. He finished his vocation with 10,122 runs successful 125 Tests astatine a staggering mean of implicit 51. He scored 34 centuries. He besides has 3092 runs successful 108 ODIs.

His grounds for the highest fig of Test hundreds was overtaken by Sachin Tendulkar, who besides has a dedicated “Sachin Tendulkar Room" astatine the BCCI office arsenic a tribute.

“Delighted to beryllium portion of the inauguration of the recently dedicated Sachin Tendulkar Room and Sunil Gavaskar Room by @BCCI – a heartfelt tribute to 2 icons of Indian cricket, @sachin_rt and #SunilGavaskar. Their bequest continues to animate generations," BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla had shared connected X past week.

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