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This day, 40 years ago: When Gavaskar equalled Bradman’s 29th hundred

Forty years to the day, on October 29, 1983, Sunil Gavaskar entered the folklore for equalling Don Bradman’s 29th hundred. Not just the record-equalling feat but the manner of his hundred, brutally walloping the pacy West Indies bowlers made everyone gasp. Such were his powers of concentration that he didn’t even realise he had reached the landmark. In his mind, he had thought he had entered the 80’s. It was left to the non-striker Dilip Vengsarkar to yell out, “Bloody hell, it’s your 29th!”.