Man in Blue Sachin Tendulkar in sports promoter Mark Mascarenhas’s Connecticut home in 1999
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar addresses media personnel during the launch of plasma donation facility at Seven Hills Hospital, in Andheri.
In this file photo, are seen cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar and Steve Waugh with the oldest living first-class cricketer and historian Vasant Raiji at his residence, in Mumbai. V...
West Indies Legends Captain Brian Lara along with India Legends Captain Sachin Tendulkar during toss of Road Safety World Series Cricket T20 match between the two teams at Wankhede...
West Indies Legends bowler Sulieman Benn along with his team mates celebrates the wicket India Legends captain Sachin Tendulkar during Road Safety World Series cricket T20 match be...
India Legends Captain Sachin Tendulkar plays a shot during Road Safety World Series cricket T20 match between West Indies Legends and India Legends at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
India Legends Captain Sachin Tendulkar plays a shot during Road Safety World Series cricket T20 match between West Indies Legends and India Legends at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
(L-R ) West Indies Legends Captain Brian Lara, Australia Legends Captain Brad Haddin, India Legends Captain Sachin Tendulkar, South Africa Legends Captain Jonty Rhodes and Sri Lank...
Former Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar during a practice session ahead of Road Safety World Series tournament, at CCI in Mumbai.
(L-R) Olympic medalist Abhinav Bindra, Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and former tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi during 'Dreams of a Billion' book launch, in Mumbai.
Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar flags off New Delhi Marathon at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar poses for a photograph with the participants during New Delhi Marathon at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Within the charmed, golden circle of the 2011 World Cup win, we Indians inscribed an emotional nucleus: the zenith of Sachin’s glorious career being celebrated from atop the shou...
In this file photo, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar is carried by fellow team members after Team India won the 2011 Cricket World Cup at Wankhede Stadium, in Mumbai. Tendulkar being car...
Sachin Tendulkar poses with the 'Best Sporting Moment Award' during the 2020 Laureus World Sports Awards in Berlin, Germany.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar takes selfie with the winners Sabina Khatun (C), Dateibankynmaw Marwein and Anita Das during 4th edition of Kolkata Full Marathon, in Kolkata.
(L-R) Mumbai Cricket Association president Dr Vijay Patil, former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and former England captain Mike Gatting at the launch of Tendulkar Middlesex Glo...
Cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar and Steve Waugh with the oldest living first class cricketer and historian Vasant Raiji at his residence, in Mumbai.
Cricket legends Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar meet Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at his residence in Mumbai. Shiv Sena MLA Aaditya Thackeray is also seen.
Veteran cricketer Sachin Tendulkar interacts with children during the inauguration of Spreading Happiness InDiya Foundation (SHIF) rural electrification initiative, in Shri Gadge M...
Shiv Visvanathan in this Saturday's TOI Crest ed:
Genius for all its individualism reeks of sociology. Cricket is one game that belongs to the oral imagination and commentary for cricket is as important as hermeneutics for the Bible. Retelling is reliving, and both religion and cricket have that in common.
School and street are an integral part of the urban imagination. They are models of life and frameworks of mobility. Here, exam and game create two parallel worlds. The legend of Sachin begins in the playing fields of Shivaji Park. There is a Drona of the cricket field, Ramakant Achrekar. There are no Ekalavyas on the scene. But there is a Kambli.
Vinod Kambli is important not just for his talent but for his zest for life. Kambli is talent that refuses to discipline itself. He is the exuberance of the street that refuses to yield to the school. Kambli is desire without discipline. He is the exuberance of the here and now that the middle class envies and despises. Kambli is the shortlived Sachin; the cameo of exuberance unlimited. Sachin and Kambli are a middle class fable that needs more attention. Kambli treats cricket as a site for desire, for the shortlived joy of politics, of cinema, of TV.He is the middle class boy who lacks a centre. Intensely appealing, he is the other, the friend who humanizes Sachin, creates other rhythms which would otherwise render Sachin as a metronome. Kambli and Sachin are foils from school. Kambli is the other who burns out, because he burns too fast. He is the Sivakasi cracker to Sachin’s blowtorch....
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Are you one of those who's still obsessing over ICC Best-Ever Test Championship Ratings and still wondering why and how on earth the ICC could rate Matthew Hayden at #10 ahead of both Sachin and Lara, to name just two? Or, are there more profound questions that you are struggling with, for example, inter alia:
