London, Aug. 10 : Former Indian cricket captain and batting legend Sunil Gavaskar has claimed that England would have ''hit the panic button'' if the UK riots had occurred in India.

Gavaskar's verbal swipe came as the two sides prepare to meet in the third Test at Edgbaston from today.

London, Jan 1 : England all-rounder Stuart Broad has denied Sunil Gavaskar's claim that he gets preferential treatment because his father is an International Cricket Council match referee.

In the first Test, at Centurion last month, Broad confronted the umpires when he was given out after a delayed decision by the South Africa players to call for the new review system. Broad however escaped punishment.

The former India captain wrote in a newspaper: "Stuart's father Chris is one of (the) ICC's match referees and so the umpires are reluctant to make a complaint against the youngster."

Kolkata, Dec 24 : So stringent was the security at the Eden Gardens that even cricketing legend Sunil Gavaskar was denied entry to the ground for not carrying his pass during the fourth India-Sri Lanka one day match here Thursday.

Gavaskar, who is on a commentary assignment with official broadcaster Neo Sports, was asked to show his accreditation pass by the security men manning the gate when he was entering the stadium in the afternoon.

As Gavaskar had left his pass at the hotel, the security men refused to allow him in as per the rules, said sources in the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB).

Kolkata, Nov 14 : Who is India's greatest ever batsman -- Sunil Manohar Gavaskar or Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar? Indian cricketing circles have been abuzz with this debate for two decades since the time Tendulkar stepped into international cricket in 1989, two years after Gavaskar called it quits.

Both Gavaskar and Tendulkar have been given the sobriquet little master for their short stature. And both Mumbaikars broke practically all the world batting records in their time - be it that of the highest number of Test runs or hundreds.

Sporting events or sportsmen figuring in a country's postage stamp isn't uncommon. Even India has its own examples, ranging from cricket to kabaddi, from Gostho Pal to Sunil Gavaskar.

But a former India cricketer on a postage stamp of Bhutan? Roger Binny, the man himself, was stumped after discovering this on Thursday. He's there, smiling among a group of children in the country where he spent four years as Development Officer of the Asian Cricket Council.

On his 60th birthday, former Indian skipper Sunil Gavaskar took blessings of the Sri Satya Sai Baba as he visited Puttaparthi, the ashram of Satya Sai Baba near Bangalore on Friday.

On this religious visit to Puttaparthi, Gavaskar was joined by his family and his brother in law, Gundappa Viswanath.

The legendary cricketer Gavaskar has a lot of records under his belt including the record of first batsman ever to score 10,000 runs in the history of cricket.

Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly will deliver a lecture at the University of Oxford in England, which is a part of ICC centenary celebrations along with Sunil Gavaskar and former International Cricket Council (ICC) president Jagmohan Dalmiya.

Ganguly, who has recently started commentary for the television in ICC T20 World Cup, has been invited by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as a guest lecturer for the 'Centenary History Conference', which will held on 22 and 23 July at St. Antony's and St. John's Colleges at the Oxford University.

After apologizing to the Indian barbers for incorporating the word 'Barber' in the title of his home production, Billu Barber and subsequently removing it, Shah Rukh Khan has now apologized to Indian cricket's living legend Sunil Gavaskar for a taunt that he buys his own team if he wanted to run one.

The King Khan before departing for South Africa as the IPL season 2 begins there, said, “I have not said anything against Gavaskar. I just wanted to have breathing space to try something new. I have sent him an apology letter because he was in America that time,”

The King Khan aka the Bollywood legend and the pride owner of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) IPL team, Shah Rukh Khan has apologized to the former Indian skipper and legendary batsman Sunil Gavaskar over the latter remarks on the multiple captaincy theory.

Before leaving for South Africa for the upcoming season of the IPL, SRK said, "I have not said anything against Gavaskar. I just wanted to have a breathing space to try something new. I have sent him an apology letter if he felt so."

Lahore, Mar 2 : Pakistan former skipper Javed Miandad listed former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar and West Indian Vivian Richards as his all time favorite players.

"I admired lot of players but I loved watching Viv and Gavaskar. They are my favorite players," Miandad said after accepting the cap that marked his entry into the ICC''s Hall of Fame that includes 55 players.

Attending the ceremony to award Hall of Fame Caps to Miandad and Hanif Mohammad at the Gaddafi stadium, Miandad listed his innings at Sharjah against India as the best of his life, The Nation reported.