NEW DELHI: Cricket living legend Sunil Gavasakar is targeted by every cricketer and off field people now and then. This time former England opener Geoffrey Boycott claimed that he was superior to Sunil as far as technique is concerned. Boycott said in his book titled 'Sunil Gavaskar:
Cricket's 'Little Master' that he and Gavaskar possessed common things in many respects but he had the better technique. He supported his view by saying people love to make comparisons between he and Sunil due to similiar playing techniques. He mentioned some similarities like they batted right-handed, opened the innings, had a great appetite for runs, hated to give their wickets away and possessed good technique.
As our records show, Sunil played more matches, scored more runs and centuries than me, but in terms of technique, I consider myself superior to Sunil even if by just half a percentage point," he added. Gavaskar has played 125 Tests and scored 10,122 runs while Boycott has 8114 runs from 108 matches. Incidentally, Boycott's argument could not convince former umpire and his Yorkshire teammate Dicky Bird who had no doubt that Gavaskar was the better batsman.
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