Sunil Gavaskar and Zaheer Abbas, both batting legends of their respective countries, go back a long way—as far back as 1971, when they were part of the Rest of the World team led by Garfield Sobers, for a series of ‘Test’ matches against Ian Chappell’s Australians.

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A senior Pakistani cricket writer informed mid-day that Gavaskar recently visited Zaheer in a London hospital, where the former Pakistan captain is recovering from pneumonia and Covid-19.