Indian cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar stands with a Muhammad Ali painting in Louisville, USA, last October

When you have scored 10,122 Test runs, a number most Indians know by heart, and led your country with distinction, you are the kind of person who is in demand for autographs - now selfies - and also memorabilia. Who would not want the gloves Sunil Gavaskar wore in a Test match? Or the bat with which he scored a century against the West Indies? But, once in his life, Gavaskar was the one asking.