Gavaskar once got a haircut from an umpire while batting
Sunil Gavaskar, who turns 69 today, got his hair trimmed from umpire Dickie Bird while batting in a Test against England in 1974. Gavaskar, who wasn't wearing a helmet, asked Bird to cut his hair as they were getting in his eyes. Bird chopped Gavaskar's hair with a pair of scissors he had kept to cut threads from ball's seam.