Prashant Jain: Bradman, Tendulkar or maybe Gavaskar?

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Editor's note: I remember Sunil Gavaskar’s last series against the West Indies that was played in India. Gavaskar, who usually faced the best pacers in the world without any safety equipment, had just begun wearing a skull cap. He was being routinely dismissed by pace bowler Malcolm Marshall, getting caught by wicketkeeper Jeffrey Dujon in that series. The master batsman just couldn’t seem to adapt. Later, at Chennai’s Chepauk stadium, in the same series, Gavaskar hit a double century. A record 236 runs to be precise. His batting was so frustrating that even a normally cool Michael Holding started bowling wides to the leg umpire. I was in school at the time and Gavaskar was an idol. But I knew it was time for “Sunny” to retire. Well, I am just keeping up with the times. The country’s most admired mutual fund manager, Prashant Jain, is being compared with cricketing stalwarts and I decided to slip in my own. Like Gavaskar, Jain is the undisputable big daddy of the investing business. He is the longest-serving fund manager in the business, with impeccable …