Guwahati (Assam) [India], June 27 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma welcomed cricketing legend Sunil Gavaskar at his workplace in Lok Sewa Bhawan in Guwahati on Saturda and mentioned strengthening Assam’s cricketing ecosystem.
The nice opening batter, who is understood for his exceptional mastery in opposition to the world’s fiercest quick bowlers, proposed to organise an International Marathon in Guwahati on the strains of the Tokyo Marathon ’25.
Chief Minister Sarma mentioned that he will likely be glad to host it as the federal government will certainly study the proposal.
The Assam CM shared a submit on X with a video of the assembly and wrote, ‘Shri Sunil Gavaskar ji met me & proposed to organise an International Marathon in Guwahati on the strains of the Tokyo Marathon’25. We will likely be glad to host it & will certainly study it. Like a lot of my technology, I additionally shared with him my childhood reminiscences of these SUNNY knocks!’
He additionally shared with him his childhood reminiscences of watching these masterclass innings of the legendary Indian batter.
Besides speaking concerning the wonderful moments of Indian cricket, additionally they talked concerning the evolution of cricket throughout the red-ball and white-ball codecs and the roadmap for additional strengthening cricket in Assam.
Sarma noticed that the invaluable insights and wealth of expertise of Gavaskar will definitely function a guiding gentle within the authorities’s efforts to nurture high quality cricketing expertise and additional develop the game within the State.
Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Devajit Saikia, and Additional Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister, KK Dwivedi, had been additionally current through the interplay.
Sunil Gavaskar performed 125 Tests and 108 ODIs, amassing 10,122 Test runs at a median of 51.12 with 34 centuries and three,092 ODI runs at a median of 35.13. He famously turned the primary batsman to attain 10,000 runs and 34 tons of in Test cricket. (ANI)