Sunny tasty in Orange City
For all his great Test exploits, Sunil Gavaskar was not rated supremely for his batting in one-day cricket. But in the 1987 World Cup, Gavaskar running a temperature, put the heat on the New Zealanders at Nagpur where he slammed his one and only limited overs century in 85 balls in his 107th ODI. His big-hitting not only had the Vidarbha Cricket Association ground crowd on their feet, it also made teammates Kiran More and Chandrakant Pandit to watch the action from an area near the sightscreen.

It was a day well spent at the cricket for the spectators because apart from Gavaskar and Krishnamachari Srikkanth's sizzling display, there was also Chetan Sharma, who earlier in the day, bagged India's first international cricket hat-trick, dismissing Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield in his final over. This turned out to be India's second last match of the 1987 World Cup as the defending champions lost to England in the semi-final at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. India's batting hero of Nagpur, could manage only four runs in his home city.