Sunny Days is the fascinating record of the growth of India's greatest batsman; one whose astonishing feats on the cricket field have had innumerable records rewritten, and yet more difficult targets set.
How did Sunil Manohar Gavaskar begin and what were the early days like? Sunny Days is all about it.
The baby is switched after birth, luckily restored by an eagle-eyed uncle; he grows up and almost breaks his mother's nose with a mighty hit (a childhood habit persisting in later life); plays good cricket in school and college; graduates inevitably through university and Trophy cricket; is at times booed by the crowd as his uncle happens to be a Selector - in fact all that could happen does happen to make him reach the age of twenty-one, when at Port of Spain, Gavaskar bursts upon the cricket scene with his Test debut.
Fluently written, self-effacing modesty imparting a rare grace to the pages, Sunny Days is great to read.
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