Batting great Sunil Gavaskar on Saturday did the honours at his brother-in-law and former India teammate Gundappa Viswanath’s book launch and called the popular ex-India captain a jewel of the world. “I am really honoured to release the book of the one and only GRV. He is not only a jewel of Karnataka and India, but also the world,” Gavaskar said at the Chinnaswamy Stadium.

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, Kapil Dev as well as Roger Binny (Karnataka State Cricket Association chief) were also  present at the launch of Wrist Assured, written in collaboration with mid-day’s Bangalore-based cricket writer, R Kaushik.