• Received Padma Bhushan in 1980.
• In December 1994 he was appointed the Sheriff of Mumbai, an honorary for a year.
• He was also the first batsman to reach 10,000 Test runs and held the record for the most number of runs until it was broken by Allan Border.
• Gavaskar was the holder of the record for the most number of Test centuries (34) until 2005 when his countryman Sachin Tendulkar broke that record.

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