Sunil Gavaskar played many a crisis innings in his decorated cricket career. He played one earlier this year by acting on a distress call from the daughter of his friend Leander Dias, 64, a former Mumbai club cricketer.

Gavaskar was behind the microphone during the last IPL-14 game (Mumbai Indians v Delhi Capitals in Chennai) on April 20 before the T20 extravaganza was suspended when his cell phone rang. The name Leander Dias showed up at around 10:30 pm. He attended to the missed call as soon as his commentary stint ended.