Sunil Gavaskar: Right till the end, Chetan Chauhan was a giver, not a taker
The Hindu“Aaja, aaja, gale mil. After all, we are in the mandatory overs of life” was the usual greeting of my opening partner Chetan Chauhan whenever we met over the last two or three years. As we hugged, I would say to him that “no, no we must have another century partnership” and he would laugh and then say “arre baba, you are the century-maker, not me.” Never in my wildest nightmares could I believe that his words about being in the mandatory overs of life would come true so soon. I was a bit superstitious about watching from the players’ enclosure as then the batsman would get out and so would always watch on the dressing room TV. However, here I was on the Adelaide balcony when Dennis Lillee came in to bowl, and would you believe, Chetan was caught behind the first ball.
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