70th Birthday Anniversary Gundappa Vishwanath

Gundappa Viswanath  stressed planning instead of intensity and his exquisite square cuts and wristy shots converted into verse at the wrinkle.

Making his presentation in 1969 against Australia, he proceeded to play 91 Test matches, scoring 6080 keeps running for India. On the off chance that anybody could approach his aestheticism, it was the Hyderabadi couple of Mohd. Azharuddin and VVS Laxman.

Despite the fact that for nearly his whole vocation, he was shadowed by Sunil Gavaskar, 'Vishy' as he is lovingly called stays a standout amongest the most respected Indian cricketers all things considered.Here are ten facts you need to know about Vishwanath.

1. Double century on Ranji debut

The right-handed batsman made his Ranji Trophy debut for Karnataka in 1967 memorable by scoring a double century.

2. Test debut with 0 and 100.

Vishy became the first cricketer to score a duck and a century on Test match. Andrew Hudson and Mohammad Wasim has repeated the feat since then. The Karnataka batsman began his career with a duck however closed his faultfinders in the exceptionally next innings with a thump of 137, which included 25 limits against Australia at Kanpur in 1969.

3. Unbeatable India when Vishy scored a 100

His first match was draw and then after whenever he scored 100 India won every single match.

4. Skipper Talent

The little expert from Karnataka moreover had a brief heave with captaincy as he captained India in two tests in the midst of the season of 1979– 80. The fundamental Test was drawn while, in the second Test, which was the Golden festival Test against England, India lost.

5. Fair play

In the Golden Jubilee Test coordinate against England, Vishy being the captain reviewed English batsman Bob Taylor to the wrinkle when he felt that the umpire had given a wrong choice. This may have cost India the match as Taylor went on to scoring some essential runs, yet to Vishy the soul of the amusement, and the feeling of reasonable play could easily compare to winning the match.

6. Melbourne to Madras

Vishy two memorable performances of his career was in India’s 1978 tour of Australia, he delivered a gem of a performance at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, hitting a knock of 114 against the likes of Dennis Lillee. On the familiar turf back home, during England’s tour of India in 1981-82, he amassed a career-best knock of 222 runs in Madras.

7. Gavaskar relations with Vishy

Sunil named his son Rohan Jaivishwa after 3 of his favourite players – West Indian captain Rohan Kanhai, M.L Jaisimha and Vishwanath.

During the decade of the 1970s, the entire cricket fan base of India was polarised in two factions – Team Sunil Gavaskar and Team Gundappa Vishwanath. Even though the debate on who the better batsman is has never ceased, both of them managed to remain the best of friends throughout their careers. He even married Sunil’s sister Kavita.

8. CK Nayudu award to Vishy

 The right-handed batting maestro was awarded the CK Nayudu Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2009, which is the highest honour in Indian cricket.

9. Top 100 in the Wisden

Gundappa Vishwanath is most remembered for his heroic 97 against WI at Chepauk in 1974-75, when the entire batting order was collapse in 190 against a fearsome bowling attack of  Andy Robert. His match-winning innings was listed as the 38th best innings of all times by Wisden in their top 100, and the 2nd best non-century.

10. Post Retirement

Post retirement, Vishy kept on being related with the diversion post-retirement, wearing a few caps – being an ICC arbitrator, executive of the national choice advisory group, director of the Indian cricket group and notwithstanding training at the National Cricket Academy.