Former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and his wife Anjali Tendulkar pose for photos as they arrive for the wedding ceremony of industrialist Mukesh Ambani's son Akash Ambani with Shlok...
Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar during the launch of Sachin Saga VR Game - India's first virtual reality cricket, in New Delhi.
Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani along with former Indian crickter Sachin Tendulkar at an event to showcase the development of the Craft and handloom sector during a fashion s...
Veteran cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and wife Anjali Tendulkar arrive to attend the wedding ceremony of MNS Chief Raj Thackeray's son Amit Thackeray who tied the knot with Mitali Bor...
Veteran cricketer Sachin Tendulkar with gymnast Dipa Karmakar during the book launch of 'Dipa Karmakar: The Small Wonder', in Mumbai.
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Veteran cricketer Sachin Tendulkar being presented a momento by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis (R) during the inauguration and openin...
NCP President Sharad Pawar offers floral tribute to former cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar as cricketer Sachin Tendulkar looks on, during his condolence meeting, in Mumbai.
Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar attends the funeral procession of his coach Ramakant Achrekar, in Mumbai.
In this May 24, 2017 file photo cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar is seen with cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar during the premiere of his biopic 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams' in Mumbai....
In this Oct 31, 2018 file photo cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar is seen with Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli in Mumbai. Achrekar, the legendary cricket coach, who shaped up great...
Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and wife Anjali offer prayers, at Golden temple in Amritsar.
Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and wife Anjali offer prayers, at Golden temple in Amritsar.
Formet Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, left, his wife Anjali and son Arjun arrive to attend the wedding of Isha Ambani, the daughter of Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Amban...
Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar with wife, Anjali Tendulkar arrive to attend the pre-wedding celebrations of Reliance Group Chairman Mukesh Ambani's daughter Isha Ambani, ...
Sachin and Anjali posed with son Arjun at the wedding reception of Deepika-Ranveer. That was enough for sharp-eyed wags. The sight of the lanky fast-bowler beside his diminutiv...
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar with wife Anjali and son Arjun during the wedding reception of actors Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone in Mumbai.
Former cricketers VVS Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar at the launch of Laxman’s autobiography ‘281 and Beyond’, in Mumbai.
Former cricketers VVS Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar at the launch of Laxman’s autobiography ‘281 and Beyond’, in Mumbai.
UNICEF representative in India Yasim Ali Haq, left, listens to UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar at an event to mark World Children's Day in N...
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:
