Cricketing legend Sunil Gavaskar has stepped into what he proudly calls his “third innings”, and this time the scoreboard reads lives saved instead of runs scored. Alongside renowned singer and humanitarian Sumeet Tappoo, Gavaskar is helping raise funds for free paediatric heart surgeries across India and abroad through the One World One Family Foundation for the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospitals, founded by global humanitarian leader Sri Madhusudan Sai.

The hospitals have already changed the future for thousands of children and their families. In a coincidence that feels more like destiny than design, Gavaskar personally sponsors thirty-five surgeries every year, a number that quietly mirrors the thirty-five centuries he made for India. What once measured cricketing greatness now measures heartbeats restored, creating a subtle continuity between the champion he was and the humanitarian he has become.