Former Indian cricketers Vinod Kambli and Sachin Tendulkar give tips to young cricketers under Tendulkar Middlesex Global Academy, at the MIG Cricket Club, in Mumbai.
Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar gives batting tips to young cricketers under Tendulkar Middlesex Global Academy, in Mumbai.
Former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar with Vinod Kambli pose for photos with Sir Ramakant Achrekar as they seek his bleesings for their upcoming venture Tendulkar Middlesex Global Acad...
Sachin Tendulkar takes a poolside break from the pressures of captaincy in Mark Mascarenhas’s Connecticut home, 1999
Indian batsman Virat Kohli and former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar before the 4th ODI cricket match between India and West Indies at Brabourne Stadium, in Mumbai.
It’s curious that Sachin should be made ambassador for UNICEF’s ‘hand washing initiative’ and packed off to roofy Bhutan. But, ever the sportsman, he’s taken it in a bats...
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar plays football with children at a school in Thimphu, Bhutan. Tendulkar is in Bhutan to spread awareness about UNICEF's Handwash initiative.
Honorary Group Captain Sachin Tendulkar with Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa and Army Chief Gen Bipin Singh Rawat watches a fly-past as he attends the 86th Air Force Day Parade 2018, a...
Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar takes part in 'Swatch Bharat Abhiyan', in Mumbai.
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.
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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