Bishan named his first son Gavasinder Singh Bedi in tribute to Sunil Gavaskar's heroics at Trinidad in 1971.
Opening the batting, he was dismissed cheaply in both innings by Karsan Ghavri and Roger Binny respectively, but took a catch to dismiss Sunil Gavaskar.
Leading players such as Sunil Gavaskar, Clive Lloyd, Kepler Wessels, Ian Botham, Graham Gooch, Allan Lamb, Viv Richards, Graeme Pollock, Wasim Akram, Ravi Shastri, Allan Border, Martin Crowe and many more were putting their trust in the product.
The highest score of the match was 51 by the Indian WK batsman M. Mantri (uncle of Sunil Gavaskar).
Mihir Bose told Paddy O'Connell on Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme that he went to school with the Indian cricketer Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar.
Sunil Gangopadhyay | Sunil Shetty | Sunil Gavaskar | Sunil Dutt | Sunil Mittal | Sunil Joshi | Sunil Grover | Sunil Manchanda | Sunil Batta | Sunil Agnihotri | Sunil Vishnu | Sunil Perera | Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar | Sunil Kumar Reddy | Sunil Kumar Desai | Sunil Khilnani | Sunil Joshi's | Sunil Gulati | Sunil Edirisinghe |
This was Waugh's 32nd Test century, taking him ahead of Sachin Tendulkar and behind only Sunil Gavaskar (34).
A reference is made to the incident where Sunil Gavaskar batted left handed against Raghuram Bhat in the Kannada movie Ganeshana Maduve.
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Bombay had at their disposal some of the then current stars of the Indian cricket team, including Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Ashok Mankad, Sandeep Patil, Ravi Shastri and Balwinder Sandhu.
Sunil Gavaskar, the former Indian Test captain, once said while commentating that the Indian players would often say to Zaheer, "Zaheer Ab-bas karo", which means "Zaheer, stop it now" in Urdu and Hindi, referring to Abbas' free scoring.