Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar visited his Guru Dronacharya Ramakant Achrekar to seek his blessings on the auspicious day of Guru Pornima with Atul Rande in Mumbai.
Indian Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar with wife Anjali Tendulkar pose for a photo at the pre-engagement party of Akash Ambani and fiancee Shloka Mehta, in Mumbai.
Sachin Tendulkar and Anjali Tendulkar arrive for Akash Ambani and Shloka Mehta’s engagement ceremony, in Mumbai.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar meets Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala.
Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar takes a selfie with fans as he arrives to inaugurate the Centre of Excellency at HPCA Stadium Dharamshala.
Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar gives batting tips to young kids at National Cricket Academy in Dharamshala.
Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and his wife Anjali Tendulkar arrive to inaugurate a cricket museum at Dharamshala.
Sachin Tendulkar cuts a cake to celebrate his birthday with fans, at his residence in Mumbai. His wife Anjali is also seen.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, Michael Clarke and Ravi Shashtri at the launch of book "Eleven God and a Billion Indians", authored by Boria Majumdar, in Mumbai.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar speaks at a book launch function in Mumbai.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar cuts a birthday cake with his wife Anjali at a book launch function in Mumbai on the eve of his birthday.
(L-R) Journalist Anil Dharker, Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma during the launch of Ganguly's book, 'A Century Is Not Enough', in Mumbai.
Cricket Legends Sunil Gavaskar (2ndL) Sachin Tendulkar and Dilip Vengsarkar (R) along with MCA President Ashish Shelar (L) during the T20 Mumbai League Opening Ceremony in Mumbai.
Half the country is rewatching those prodigious winks and that unmatched smile. Priya Prakash Varrier, meanwhile, is basking in it all. Here she is, at a Kerala Blasters vs Chennai...
Former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar unveils BMW 6 Series Gran Turismo at Auto Expo 2018 in Greater Noida.
Former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar applauses for the participants during the opening ceremony of Kolkata Police Annual sports meet in Kolkata.
Former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar interacts with a member of the Indian Women's Cricket team at MCA BKC in Mumbai.
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar met members of the Indian Women’s cricket team at the MCA BKC in Mumbai. The team is slated to visit South Africa for a ODI and T20 series.
Sachin Tendulkar along with his family arrive for the wedding reception of Indian cricket team captain, Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma, 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:
