Sunil Gavaskar reveals weakness for glucose biscuits

Former Indian skipper Sunil Gavaskar who turned 67 yesterday is regarded as one of the best opening batsmen of all time, and certainly one of the most successful. He has revealed one of his weaknesses, which are glucose biscuits from Amchi Mumbai.

This was revealed by his younger sister Nutan at a function organised to mark his birthday by the Legends Club at the Cricket Club of India. “He used to like those biscuits. Parle-G glucose biscuits. West Indies was a long way off and [it was a] long tour, so he would like to have those biscuits for his tea or coffee, so whoever was travelling there, we would try and send those packets of biscuits for him,” Nutan Gavaskar told reporters.

“He would pack [the biscuits before the tour], they often used to get over in three weeks or a month. Wherever he travelled, and whoever travelled to that place…some journalist, or someone we knew, or relatives, some friends [we used to send biscuits with them],” she added. “Now he is a little worried about diabetes and those biscuits are little sweet, so he tries and avoids them, [but] he still likes them,” she added.

Former Mumbai opener Shishir Hattangadi recalled one of the occasions where the West Indian pacers respected the Little Master.

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“It was at Ravi Shastri’s house where during some tournament [for charity]… all the fast bowlers had come in, and they were having few beers at Ravi’s place. Sunny Gavaskar walks in his pyjama-kurta, little late, the moment he walked in through that door, all four [bowlers], over six feet, got up saying ‘hi master, how are you’,” he recollected.

“I mean that [is the kind of] respect and reverence the four great bowlers [had for Gavaskar] and they were all great – Micheal Holding, Joel Garner, Malcolm Marshall, Andy Roberts,” he concluded.