India, June 17 -- Sunil Gavaskar and the West Indies is a story that gets retold at every cricket gathering. Astonishingly, a new detail or an unheard tale somehow manages to sneak in to leave the eyes wide open almost every time. The legendary India opener has himself gone on record countless times to narrate his famous battles with the West Indies team, especially their ferocious bowling line-up, but the stories and the tale of bravery or nightmare, depending on how you look at it, are never-ending. Not that cricket fans are complaining.

Yograj Singh, a former India medium pacer and the father of Yuvraj Singh, shared a story on how Gavaskar was threatened by the fearsome West Indies fast bowlers Malcolm Marshall, Joel Garner, Andy Robe...