In the 1983 match between West Indies and India in New Delhi, Gavaskar equaled Bradman’s record of 29 Test centuries. The batsman’s goal, he stated, was to score 100 runs each time he batted. Sunil Gavaskar, a legend of cricket who scored more than 13,000 international runs, claimed that he never set goals at the crease and never looked at the scoreboard while batting.
In addition, the former captain of India stated that his goal was to always bat sessions in Test matches, from the start of play until stumps. Because each batsman sets his or her own goals, I didn’t look at the scoreboard while I was batting. Gavaskar stated, “Getting to 10, 20, and 30 is a good way, which is what coaches tell you to do first.”
To dispose of the tension in arriving at a specific objective, one ought to play each ball on its legitimacy without taking a gander at the scoreboard, Gavaskar said while talking at the ‘Spotlight Meeting’ during INFOCOM 2022, an occasion coordinated by the ABP Gathering here on Thursday.
“The way I looked at it was that if my goal was to reach 30 if I reached 24 or 25, I would be extremely anxious about trying to reach 30. I would then play at a ball outside off stump or something, scratch it and be out for say 26, attempting to raise a ruckus around town that would have me to 30,” he said.
In the 1983 match against the West Indies in New Delhi, Gavaskar equaled Bradman’s record of 29 Test centuries. The batsman’s goal, he stated, was to score 100 runs each time he batted. Gavaskar shared an interesting story about how he didn’t look at the scoreboard when he reached the milestone of equaling Sir Don Bradman’s 29th Test century.
He continued, “I didn’t know anything until (Dilip) Vengsarkar came and told me about the achievement.”