sunil gavaskar made his debut for india in the west indies in 1970-71 and immediately made an impact, scoring a total of 774 runs for the series and helping india to a 1-0 series win, their first ever win over the west indies. together with established players like bishen bedi, srinivas venkataraghavan, erapalli prasanna and bhagwat chandrasekhar, gavaskar formed the nucleus of arguably india's strongest test team up to that point in time. india's win over the west indies was followed by home and away wins over england in 1971 and 1972-73.