India, March 18 -- This time last month, Sunil Gavaskar was the toast of Pakistan. Alongside Kapil Dev and 12 other former international captains for their very public, passionate and heartfelt appeal to the Pakistani authorities to treat Imran Khan, Pakistan's cricketing pride and joy, with the humaneness that any individual, let alone an icon of the country, deserves.

An initiative that is the brainchild of Greg Chappell was whole-heartedly endorsed by two of India's greatest cricketers and skippers of all time, who chose to set aside political tensions and a climate of distrust aside and join their counterparts from other parts of the world to make a fervent plea on behalf of the ailing Imran, the charismatic 1992 World Cup-winning sk...