Sunil Gavaskar unexpectedly focused on Sourav Ganguly, revealing that the former BCCI president had something that belonged to him. Sunil Gavaskar and Sourav Ganguly are two of Indian cricket’s greatest legends. Both have 10,000 runs in ODIs and Tests and even share the same initials, making them iconic opening batters.
If that isn’t enough, consider the following amusing fact that will blow your mind: In their 99th Test, Ganguly and Gavaskar both made a double century. In 1983, Gavaskar scored his vocational best Grade of 236 against West Indies, and after 24 years, Ganguly enrolled his lady and just Test twofold hundred years, scoring 239 against Pakistan in Bengaluru.
Interestingly, both Ganguly and Gavaskar are avid football fans. In 2014, Ganguly was one of the founding members of Atletico de Kolkata. During the entire merger with Mohun Bagan, he also played a crucial role. Gavaskar, on the other hand, said that he has always been a big Arsenal fan. Arsenal is an EPL team.
The previous India commander isn’t as a very remarkable fan as he is an admirer, however, Gavaskar has forever been enamored with two of Stockpile FC’s greatest legends specifically. I’ve been a Stockpile supporter for a while now—not so much a fan as a devotee. Tell me four names from the Arsenal team, I used to mock my kid, a Manchester United fan, by asking.
Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry, in my opinion. Another factor is that even Arsene Wenger has an uncanny resemblance to my hero ML Jaisimha. Bergkamp, who played for the Gunners in 423 games and scored 120 goals, will arguably go down as the greatest Gunner legend of all time. With 228 goals scored across all competitions between 1999 and 2007, Henry comes in a close second.
Henry is considered to be one of history’s greatest strikers. He is Arsenal’s all-time leading goal scorer, has won two FA Cups, and the Gunners have won as many EPL titles; He was also a part of the team during Arsenal’s invincible 2003-04 Premier League campaign. After that, unexpectedly, Gavaskar turned his attention to Ganguly, another football fan.
He said that the former BCCI president had the shirt that the former Arsenal captain had signed and promised to get it back during India vs. Sri Lanka series that starts next month.”Hello, Sourv Ganguly? Is that shirt still there? Sourav, you better do better this time because I don’t want any excuses.
I’m coming to Kolkata for the game on the 12th. You are no longer the president of the BCCI. You have a little more spare time. Find that shirt which Henry had finished the paperwork for me and if it’s not too much trouble, give it to me when I come there on the twelfth,” added Gavaskar.