Rohan Sunil Gavaskar is an Indian

Indian people

Indian people or Indisians constitute the Asian nation and pan-ethnic group native to India, which forms the south of Asia, containing 17.31% of the world's population. The Indian nationality is in essence made up of regional nationalities, reflecting the rich and complex history of India...

 cricket

Cricket

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er who has played in 11 One Day Internationals. He is a specialist middle-order left-handed batsman and an occasional slow left arm orthodox

Left-arm orthodox spin

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 bowler. He studied at St. Xaviers Collegiate School, Kolkata, Bombay Scottish School, and then Ramniranjan Anandilal Podar College of Commerce and Economics.

Having spent many years in the shadow of his more illustrious father, Sunil

Sunil Gavaskar

Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar is a former cricketer who played during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history, Gavaskar set world records during his career for the most Test runs and most Test centuries scored by any...

, he was selected for the Indian cricket team

Indian cricket team

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 to tour Australia

Australia

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 in 2004, and made his ODI debut after Mohammad Kaif was forced out of the team due to injury. He did not make a lasting impression on the international game, and his last ODI came during the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy

2004 ICC Champions Trophy

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In Indian domestic cricket, he represented Bengal

Bengal cricket team

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 in the Ranji Trophy

Ranji Trophy

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, and East Zone

East Zone cricket team

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 in the Duleep Trophy

Duleep Trophy

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He was given the names Rohan Jaivishwa by his father as a tribute to his 3 favourite cricketers - Rohan Kanhai

Rohan Kanhai

Rohan Bholalall Kanhai is a former West Indian Cricket player of Indo-Guyanese descent. He is widely considered as one of the best batsmen of the 1960s. Kanhai featured in several great West Indian teams, playing with, among others, Sir Garfield Sobers, Roy Fredericks, Lance Gibbs, and Alvin...

; M. L. Jaisimha

M. L. Jaisimha

Motganhalli Laxminarsu Jaisimha was an Indian Test cricketer.M.L. Jaisimha a right-handed batsman who was noted for his style on and off the field. He bowled medium pace, often opening the bowling for India, and off breaks and was a brilliant fielder. But it was the way he went about things that...

; and Rohan's uncle, Gundappa Vishwanath -
although his name is usually recorded as Rohan Sunil Gavaskar.

Rohan is married to his childhood sweetheart, Swati Mankar.

In 2007, Gavaskar signed a contract with the unauthorised Indian Cricket League

Indian Cricket League

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, playing for the Kolkata Tigers. After breaking his links with the league, and returning to mainstream Indian domestic cricket, he was selected to play in the third season of the Indian Premier League

Indian Premier League

The Indian Premier League is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered in Mumbai, and is supervised by BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner...

 for the Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders

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