<p><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/cricket/article/sunil-gavaskar-a-valiant-indian-batsman-of-his-time-23327112" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><strong>Sunil Gavaskar</strong></a>&rsquo;s 75 birthday was celebrated by The Legend&rsquo;s Club at the Wankhede Stadium on Wednesday.</p>
<p>With the batting icon in London, a cake was cut on his behalf at the PD Hall.</p>
<p>In attendance were K Jayantilal, who was Gavaskar&rsquo;s teammate on their 1971 debut series in the West Indies, former Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) president Dr Vijay Patil, ex-Mumbai cricketer Bharat Nadkarni, ex-commentator Fredun De Vitre, BCCI umpires Marcus Couto and Paschim Pathak.</p>
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<p>Among those who were asked to speak about their experiences with Gavaskar, was Anil Joshi, who was Gavaskar&rsquo;s teammate at Nirlon.</p>
<p>Joshi spoke about the time when he and Hemant Waingankar apprised Gavaskar of a kid called <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/cricket/article/sachin-tendulkar-reveals-the-tennis-player-he-would-like-to-bat-with-23362148" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><strong>Sachin Tendulkar</strong></a>, who was disappointed at not being named MCA&rsquo;s Junior Cricketer of the Year in 1987. Joshi revealed that the then teenaged Tendulkar was so disappointed at not being named for the award that he stopped playing cricket for a month.</p>
<p>Joshi remarked: &ldquo;I was with SunGrace Mafatlal then and we had already adopted Sachin. Ajit [Tendulkar&rsquo;s elder brother] came to the late Hemant and me. We decided that the best option [to pacify Tendulkar] was to get Sunil to write an encouraging letter to Sachin.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Gavaskar obliged and stated in the letter that he too was passed over for a similar honour. Joshi stressed that the letter &ldquo;turned Sachin&rsquo;s career.&rdquo;</p>
<p>By the way, Gavaskar wrote the letter on the bonnet of Waingankar&rsquo;s car before boarding a flight. And Tendulkar&rsquo;s career took off.</p><p>
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