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India went on to win the match.
There will be some other examples of
obduracy, cussedness, shows of temper etc.
Like everyone else, Gavaskar too is human.
But it would be safe to say that the positive
attributes outnumber the negative ones by
a whopping margin.
Gavaskar is a cricketing phenomenon, and
also a metaphor for a country emerging out
of an insecure mindset in the 1970s. He was
to show spine, resilience, toughness, ability,
self-belief and ambition to compete and be
the best on the field. In doing so, he became
a beacon for not just young cricketers, but
the nation. He showed that Indians had it
in them to be the best in the world in any
endeavour.
As Javed Miandad said, Gavaskar knows cricket like the
back of his hand

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