Cricket fans can now associate the figure 774 (the number of runs Sunil Gavaskar scored in his debut Test series against the West Indies in 1971) to another player. Let's say, another fine batsman — Australia's Steven Smith.

Like Smith, who scored the same number of runs in the recently-concluded Ashes series, the little Indian reached his 774-run tally in four Tests. Gavaskar missed the first Test of that series in Kingston due to a finger injury while Smith didn't play in Leeds after copping a hit on the neck from a Jofra Archer delivery in the second Test at Lord's. Lord Relator, the Trinidadian calypsonian, compared Gavaskar to a wall and sang, "We couldn't out Gavaskar at all, not at all." In Smith's case, the pundits in England ran out of adjectives to describe his batting.