Step back in time and relive the golden era of Indian cricket with the wrist wizard Gundappa Ranganath Vishwanath. Born on February 12, 1949, this legendary batsman redefined elegance and timing through the 1970s.
In this rare footage from the Delhi Test of 1979, Vishwanath takes on Pakistan in the 2nd innings, scoring a graceful 34 runs off 86 balls — every shot reflecting his unmatched artistry. Known for his signature square cut and late cut, Vishy was a master of both pace and spin, and a true joy to watch.
From scoring a double century on first-class debut to a century in his first Test, and later winning the C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award, Gundappa Vishwanath remains one of India’s most beloved cricketers.
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In this rare footage from the Delhi Test of 1979, Vishwanath takes on Pakistan in the 2nd innings, scoring a graceful 34 runs off 86 balls — every shot reflecting his unmatched artistry. Known for his signature square cut and late cut, Vishy was a master of both pace and spin, and a true joy to watch.
From scoring a double century on first-class debut to a century in his first Test, and later winning the C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award, Gundappa Vishwanath remains one of India’s most beloved cricketers.
🎥 Watch this nostalgic cricket clip and relive the golden memories of an era when class, not power, ruled the crease.
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00:00It's time to rewind the clock and relive a piece of cricketing magic.
00:05This rare footage takes us back to December 1979, when Gandapa Vishwanath walked out to
00:11bat in the second innings against Pakistan during the daily test, a moment that still
00:17glows in India's cricketing history.
00:20When Vishwanath batted, the game slowed down for everyone watching, his balance, his timing
00:25and above all, that magic square cut, it was not just a shot, it was an artist's signature.
00:33He had the kind of batting style that made fans stop whatever they were doing, just to
00:39admire the craft.
00:41Those were the days when cricket lived through radio commentaries and next-day newspapers headlines.
00:46The stadium crowd carried the soul of the game, waving flags, clapping in rhythm, and leaving
00:52every ball.
00:53Black and white television sets might have missed the colors, but they captured something
00:58deeper, the golden spirit of the sports.
01:01Watching this clip is like walking into a time capsule, when cricketers played for pride,
01:07when every run had weight, and when fans loved the game with pure hearts.
01:12So let's relive that nostalgia.
01:14Watch Gandapa Vishwanath once again, the man whose wrist work could silence ballers and whose
01:20elegance defined Indian batting for a generation.
01:23So tell us, does that classic square cut still makes your hearts skip a beat?
01:28And the man, to the loud applause of this wonderful crowd, is Gandapa Vishwanath, the most stylish,
01:38the most competent batman in the Indian style.
01:42And he was a victim of a very unfortunate run-out in the first innings for North.
01:49I was a victim of a human being.
01:56I was a victim of a child.
02:01I was a victim of a child.
02:04I was a victim of a child.
02:07of batsman vishwanath jinkum
02:14in the first means of vishwanath
02:20run out and run out
02:24the batsman is very good
02:27the batsman is very good
02:32and you have to be able to close out the street
02:42and you have to come out with your attention
02:51I actually wrote that this,
03:12The
03:41This is the first day of the 16th century.
03:48The last day of the 12th century is the first day of the 18th century.
03:54I am going to ask you some questions.
04:00so we are going to play this game
04:07this is the best place in Bhairat
04:10and the first place is the best place
04:15and the first place is the best place
04:20Here he is, Pakistan, Pakistan, again, it's like a bus to be, or good, all of them.
04:36Gali mea aengye feel karne ke liye, cover position ke trafee, feel her, kashlima,
04:42,
04:44the first slip
04:46will be a second
04:48.
04:50.
04:52.
04:54.
04:56.
04:58.
05:00.
05:06.
05:08སླཀད ཏ འཇ ཐབྱར ཟིགས དངགས སླདངས སླླདིག གམབྱར དགས སླབྱངས སློད
05:15She went very good to meet her grandchildren.
05:26She came here in the village of Hushwaanath in Hushwaanath.
05:30She returned from Hushwaanath to the village of Hushwaanath.
05:35I don't have a quite often
05:39In the end of the day
05:42I am in the end of the day
05:44There is another time
05:49The people
05:53There was a good time
05:58The first time I was in the day
06:02I am in the day
06:03I am in the day
06:04When you mention someone's suicide, you can't wait for a fourth time on the clock.
06:10They're hitting the difference between Bhasin and Bhaarath and Bhaarath,
06:14and at this point the score was 2.
06:18This scoreboard is 1.101 for Bhairath.
06:232 scoreboard.
06:27This scoreboard is 2.
06:30The scoreboard has given you the same scoreboard as you can see on the scoreboard.
06:37If you have scored your scoreboard, you have scored one scoreboard.
06:49The scoreboard is the same scoreboard as you can see.
06:54It is very beautiful.
06:57Satran Vishwanath .
06:59It is a horrible place for both class.
07:03It is 217th in Pakistan,
07:08228th in Pakistan.
07:10It is a great place for men.
07:12There are OP아�rtosh vashqat.
07:15It is a great place for Vishwanath.
07:19It is Bari,
07:21Okay.
07:22Let's get started.
07:23Yes.
07:24Yes.
07:25Yes.
07:26Yes.
07:27No.
07:29Yes.
07:30but the gender of the gender of the gender of the gender of the gender of gender,
07:35having a bit of view of gender,
07:39but the gender of gender and gender of gender are not as important as gender.
07:45So, we also had a and the gender of gender,
07:50There was no good guy, he was a young man, I was disabled as a child, after his death was a man of a man,
07:56and he was also a man, but he was a man who told him.
08:01He was a man, I never saw him, but I saw him in the 80s,
08:07and he was a man who was a man who was a man,
08:10and he was a man who was a man who was a man who was a man who was a man.
08:15We have two very confident appeals against him, on both occasions the benefit of the
08:37doubt going to him, and perhaps the benefit and the doubt both rather embarrassingly large.
08:52And I think it was fair to justice that he was finally out LBW Tuesday to come there,
08:58who had grabbed him on the pads on the previous two occasions.
09:07We now have a similar, 105.2, 285 now required by India, 8 wickets in hand.
09:22Obviously India now will be looking, see the close of late day without any further locks,
09:30another wicket to Kazakhstan, and I think they will be reasonably satisfied with the boat.
09:37The way down to Palapneza, only a single.
09:52We have 35 minutes of playing time left, but today being bright and sunny, it's very noticeable
10:07that that shadow which comes across from the left, it drops, I think about a foot ahead of
10:26body, 107.62.
10:41Down to the corner, Palapneza the fielder, 1-1.
10:48I am very lucky there Vishwanath, a single, 110.62 now, Vishwanath for that one.
11:07So, give in, and that's what it takes.
11:08That's what it takes, is what it takes.
11:09The Vishwanath will get 2, both at the buching room is 2-1.
11:10The Vishwanath gets 2, and that comes as if we turn and it's a beautiful one to the
11:14keepers.
11:152 to Vishwanath, 112 to 2.
11:16And after Gavastra, he looks the most confident of the Indian batsman so far, an over-accomplished player.
11:44That's a groovy and Vishwanath not reading it.
12:12He was going for the square-cut, he was waiting for the ball to curl away the leg straight and it wits into him.
12:22Very good delivery to this amount there.
12:38Another fine over from young Carter.
12:41Been a lot of, see a lot of hymns, people of Pakistan crickets.
12:46One, one, see the tree.
12:50Going back on 31, Vishwanath on 11.
12:56Replacing cover and galley in the tree place.
13:14T77 required by India to win.
13:18Good view of Vishwanath's stance.
13:22Square-cut, but straight to the Krimaris X point.
13:32And Vishwanath as well is very fond of their shot off the back foot if he hits particularly well.
13:42He hits at between point and cover point.
13:44And that's from the depth of the silver.
13:56End of the earth, one hundred and thirty.
14:00Two.
14:20Square-cut, that one, down to third man, they'll only get a single.
14:24There's a sealer posted there.
14:28Vishwanath.
14:30New rings.
14:31They have served very productively in the evening so far.
14:34But mostly one, see the square-cut.
14:36India 119-2.
14:40Third group, then Sato.
14:42And fifteen, Vishwanath.
14:49Two.
14:53Pakistan is contained in their well in the first half hour or so.
15:02And now two hundred and forty minutes plus the mandates we are left.
15:08And there are 268 runs in that.
15:12So, the charge is getting more and more difficult.
15:18Seven.
15:19Seven.
15:20Through the covers.
15:21A lovely spoke by Vishwanath.
15:23They go two for two.
15:25And after two, Vishwanath has certainly looked the more aggressive.
15:33One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:34One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:36One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:40One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:41One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:42One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:43One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:44One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:45One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:46One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:47One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:48One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:49One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:50One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:51One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:52One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:53One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:54One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:55One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:56One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:57One hundred and twenty-four for two now.
15:58And the bus there had a very economical spell, so data was from the pre-run, data was the
16:16pre-run.
16:17It's made into that.
16:28Good delivery and moved away because it took the outside aid to come after that.
16:56The other possibility is India gets too far behind the cross and after lunch, it starts
17:06in a great deal.
17:07All sorts of possibilities.
17:09Single, the body is giving a thigh away, so 125 now for two.
17:24And that's a beautiful shot.
17:25No need to change that.
17:31No need to change that.
17:32A flowing square cut.
17:36No need to change that.
17:37No need to change that.
17:43No need to change that.
17:44No need to change that.
17:45No need to change that.
17:50A flowing square cut.
17:54I saw a sort lifting outside the off done from it.
17:59And Viswanath really got soft of that one.
18:02Cut it square between Gully and Point before.
18:08So the first really attacking shot coming from Vendapa Vishwanath is Paul who moves up to 21.
18:18In India, 129.
18:22And Patunga hitting the ball short, hoping for the ball to rear up.
18:42And Patunga hitting the ball.
18:58And Patunga hitting the ball.
19:02And Patunga hitting the ball.
19:06And they've had the presence of changing the balls so often in the game that they've lost about 30 seconds in the 4-day process.
19:36So in the Vishwanathans, the state of the match perhaps depends on the presence of Vishwanathans in the middle.
19:58And as long as he's there, India has a chance to fight back.
20:04Certainly the most attractive and...
20:20And this man has 2,150.
20:24That's the overstech. Driven very firmly.
20:34Talat after it.
20:36But it will beat him to the boundary.
20:38Four runs.
20:40Five runs.
20:42Five runs.
20:44Five runs.
20:46Five runs.
20:48And this would not like to play his play.
20:50That one fits well up to him.
20:52This is very firmly by Talat.
20:54The widest mid-up for four.
20:56Five runs.
20:58Five runs.
21:00So at the end of that, they were in there 134.
21:04This would not...
21:06Which is one of those in mind?
21:12When he was in Belgium for a while.
21:14No!
21:15We were two at since.
21:16That's what a world would not be seen.
21:18The same.
21:19Many...
21:20But this will not be seen.
21:21The same.
21:22Yes, no.
21:23работы.
21:24This will not be seen at high levels.
21:26As little of them now is not too loud.
21:28No one, the end of December is over, 139 seconds.
21:58Maxis now certainly must be thinking of ringing the same, perhaps calling past them to check the calling rate.
22:11It hasn't been very quick, but these two bets now look pretty well settled.
22:20Ben Clark has been in the middle for quite some time, saying that the fall of 200, or rather devastated with it, yesterday, is on 41.
22:42And the helmet is being asked for, and in fact, we are going to see a bullet chain from the civilian end.
22:49And it's going to be a fall faster.
22:52No ball, one more to India, 140 should see.
23:15And Sikandabakh must now be very close to the figure of Rodney Hogg, who bore quite a number of snowballs in the recently concluded tour.
23:42And Sikandabakh's being constantly no balls.
23:49And you might have noticed that Sikandabakh just stopped when he was going to deliver the ball, trying to see where his foot lends.
24:11So when you talk about class, grace, and timing.
24:28So, when you talk about class, grace and timing in Indian Cricket, one name rises effortlessly
24:44Gandapa Vishwanath.
24:46He was born on 12 February 1949.
24:49This Bangalore boy was not just a past man.
24:52He was an artist who turned cricket pitches into canvases and ballers into brushes for
24:57his genius strokes.
24:59Through the 1970s, Vishwanath stood out as one of India's most elegant stroke makers,
25:05a man whose technique was poetry and whose temperament was steel.
25:10Between 1969 and 1983, he played 91 test matches, scoring over 6,000 runs, each run crafted with
25:18precision and charm.
25:20He also featured in ODS from 1974 to 1982, representing India in both the 1975 and 1979 World Cups,
25:30the early days of limited overs cricket.
25:32His story began with the Bang, a double century-owned debut in first-class cricket against Andhra
25:38Pradesh in 1967, and a century-owned test debut soon after.
25:42Talk about making an interest for his unmatched contribution.
25:46He was later honored with the CK Naido Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008, the highest recognition
25:53an Indian cricketer can receive from the board.
25:57His numbers can never truly describe what Vishy brought to the crease.
26:01His batting was an exhibition of pure timing.
26:04The late cut was his signature shot, carved with wrists so powerful and supple that even
26:10the fastest deliveries bent to his will.
26:13Whatever it was pace or sprint, Vishwanath played them with effortless grace, dancing
26:17down to the spinners or leaning into the quicks with the confidence of a master craftman.
26:23In the second innings against Pakistan at Delhi in 1979, Vishwanath once again showcased his
26:29class, scoring a composed 34 runs of 86 balls in 134 minutes, peppered with four crisp boundaries,
26:36before falling to Iqbal Qasim.
26:39It was not a big score, but every run carried this trademark finances.
26:43Those districts, those late glides, and that calm presence at the crease.
26:47Vishwanath may have shared the spotlight with legends like Sunil Gavaskar, but make no mistake,
26:54his contribution was just as vital.
26:56When Sunil Gavaskar was grit and disciplined, Vishwanath was elegance and rhythm.
27:01Together they formed the heartbeat of Indian batting through a glorious era.
27:05Even today when you replay his old footages, you don't just see a best man, you witness
27:10a master in flow, painting cricket's finest strokes, one boundary at a time.
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