Sunil Gavaskar Turns 70! ICC, BCCI, Shikhar Dhawan And Others Wish the Indian Batting Legend Happy Birthday; See Tweets

Former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar turned 70 on Wednesday and the Indian cricket legend received many heart-warming wishes by cricket fraternity on social media. ICC, BCCI, Mumbai Indians and Shikhar Dhawan shared special messages for the little master on Twitter. Gavaskar's birthday also became a crucial event on Twitter with #SunilGavaskar trending among the top searches. Happy Birthday, Sunil Gavaskar! Disliking Helmets to Writing Books, Here Are Five Lesser-Known Facts About the Former Indian Cricket Legend.

ICC posted a photo of Gavaskar from his younger days and wished him. Sharing Mumbai cricketer’s brilliant batting stats with the post, ICC wrote, "The first man to 10,000 Test runs, A Test-best of 236, 35 international hundreds, Happy birthday to one of the greats, Sunil Gavaskar!" Sunil Gavaskar Kept Promise to Ranveer Singh, Breaks Into Jig After India Beat Pakistan (Watch Video). 

ICC wishes incredible cricketer!

Batting Great turns 70!

BCCI also wished Gavaskar by calling him a Batting legend. "Wishing Batting Legend and former India captain Sunil Gavaskar a very Happy Birthday", BCCI wrote.

Happy Birthday Batting Legend!

Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan also wished the World Cup 1983 Indian team-member on Twitter with a photo. "Happy birthday to the legend #SunilGavaskar Sir. May you have a wonderful year ahead", the left-handed batsman wrote.

Opener wishes former opener!

Sachin Tendulkar also shared a lovely photo on Twitter to wish Gavaskar, considered as one of the best Test cricketers of all time.

Calling the former right-handed batsman as 'Ambassdor of sport', Mumbai Indians shared an old photo of Gavaskar while batting to wish him on his birthday. "World Cup winner, Cricketing legend, Ambassador of the sport Wishing a very happy birthday to our Little Master - #SunilGavaskar", MI wrote on Twitter.

Happy Birthday Sunny!

Sunil Gavaskar was born on July 10, 1949, in Mumbai. The Mumbai-based batsman played cricket for India for 20 long years, from 1969 to 1989. Gavaskar is famous for scaling many records in Tests, for instance, becoming first cricketers to reach 10,000 runs in Tests. He also held the record for the most number of centuries in Tests (34) for almost two decades, before Sachin Tendulkar finally broke it in 2005.

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