Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, left, with his wife Anjali and son Arjun pose for media after casting their votes in Mumbai.
Former Indian cricketers Sunil Gavaskar, left, and Sachin Tendulkar speak during an event to announce the Road Safety World Series in Mumbai. The World Series will be an annual Twe...
Cricket legends Jhonty Rhodes, Virendra Sehwag, Tilakratne Dilshan, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and Brett Lee at the announcement of the Road Safety World Series in Mumbai. The se...
Former Indian cricketer and honorary Indian Air Force (IAF) officer Sachin Tendulkar, cente right, shakes hand with Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Bhadauria ...
Former Indian cricketer and honorary Indian Air Force (IAF) officer Sachin Tendulkar, center right, speaks with Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat during Air Force Day parade at...
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar arrives at Wankhede Stadium to cast his vote for the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) polls, in Mumbai.
President Ram Nath Kovind presents the most effective Swachchta Ambassador award to legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar at the India Today Safaigiri Summit, on the occasion of 150...
With every conceivable sporting activity speedily shuffled up into a corporatised league for maximum milking, it’s unsurprising that the annual boat race on the Punnamada lake in...
Former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar along with his family members poses for photographs during the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at Mukesh Ambani's residence 'Antilla' in Mumbai.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar flags off the 67th edition of Nehru Trophy boat race at Alappuzha in Kerala.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar during the inauguration of the 67th edition of Nehru Trophy boat race at Alappuzha in Kerala
Veteran cricketer Sachin Tendulkar interacts with elderly residents playing carrom at St Anthony’s Old Age Home for Women, in Mumbai. This visit is part of the ongoing National S...
Indian batting icon Sachin Tendulkar being inducted into International Cricket Council's Hall of Fame, in London.
New Zealand's captain Kane Williamson receives the runners-up trophy from former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar after his team lost the Cricket World Cup final match between Eng...
What holds true for advertisers goes for Bollywood’s publicity seekers too—namely, with over a billion eyeballs trained at the India vs Pakistan, there couldn’t be a bi...
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar trains children on the first day of Tendulkar Middlesex Global Academy training camp, in Mumbai.
Former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar along with his wife Anjali Tendulkar, daughter Sara Tendulkar and son Arjun Tendulkar show their ink-marked finger after casting vote during the 4...
MI's Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh watching the match during the Indian Premier League 2019 (IPL T20) cricket match between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Mumbai Indians (MI) at...
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar poses for selfie with the women cops as he celebrates his 46th birthday at his residence at Bandra in Mumbai.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar poses for photos with his fans he celebrates his 46th birthday at his residence at Bandra in Mumbai.
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:
