Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar at the launch of Apnalaya and Mumbai First initative supported by MCGGM 'Mission 24' at the BMC headquarters in Mumbai. Mission 24 is a 24 month long civ...
Former Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar with family prays at Lalbaugcha Raja Ganesh idol during the Ganesh festival in Mumbai.
Rajya Sabha MP, Sachin Tendulkar at parliament to cast his vote for the election of Vice President, in New Delhi.
Former Indian cricketer and co-owner of Tamil Thalaivas team Sachin Tendulkar, center, waves to his fans before the start of first Pro Kabaddi League match between Telugu Titans an...
Cricketer and co-owner of Tamil Thalaivas Sachin Tendulkar during the unveiling of the team jersey for the Pro Kabaddi League 2017, in Chennai.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and President of BMW India Vikram Pawah at the launch of the BMW 5 series in Mumbai.
This (top) is Virat hosting a charity ball for his Justice and Care organisation alongside Sachin and Wilkos in London. The team was there, naturally, and so was the gormless Vijay...
Sourav Ganguly, V.V.S. Laxman and Tendulkar, members of the BCCI’s Cricket Advisory Committee
Sachin Tendulkar Sells His Nissan GT-R - The Only Egoist Edition In India. Sachin has sold the GT-R to a Bombay based automotive enthusiast
Sachin Tendulkar's fan Sudhir waves the Indian tricolour as Sachin with wife Anjali arrives at the screening of the biopic 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams', in Mumbai.
Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar with Ranvir Singh during the premier of his biopic 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams', in Mumbai.
Master blaster Sachin & Anjali Tendulkar along with Amir Khan during the premier of his biopic 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams', in Mumbai.
Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar with Yuvraj Singh before the screening of 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams' film, in Mumbai.
Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar and his wife Anjali Tendulkar with cricketer Virat Kohli and actress Anushka Sharma at the screening of the biopic 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams', in Mu...
Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar with M S Dhoni before the screening of 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams' film, in Mumbai.
Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar along with the Indian cricket team at the screening of film 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams', in Mumbai.
Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar along with the Indian cricket team at the screening of film 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams', in Mumbai.
Master blaster Sachin & Anjali Tendulkar along with Nita Ambani, Mukesh Ambani and Akash Ambani during the premier of his biopic 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams', in Mumbai.
Master blaster Sachin & Anjali Tendulkar along with Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan during the premier of his biopic 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams', in M...
Master blaster Sachin & Anjali Tendulkar along with Shahrukh Khan during the premier of his biopic 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams', in Mumbai.
Leeds, Aug 24 (AFP) Joe Root can still remember his sense of disappointment when he first came to watch a Test at Headingl
New Delhi, Aug 24 (PTI) Not turning a blind eye to diabetes, cricket's great Sachin Tendulkar has urged everyone to celebr
Kochi, Aug 23 (PTI) Former Manchester United and Tottenham striker Dimitar Berbatov has been signed up by Kerala Blasters
New Delhi, Aug 23 (PTI) Legendary cricketer and Rajya Sabha member Sachin Tendulkar has disbursed Rs 15 lakh from his allo
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 22 (ANI): Not many are aware of the fact that India is on the edge of becoming
Shirdi (Mah), Aug 21 (PTI) The Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust (SSST), which manages the Saibaba temple here, today cancelled
Kolkata, Aug 20 (PTI) Indian woman pacer Jhulan Goswami's World Cup semifinal winning jersey will now adorn the walls of F
Mumbai, Aug 20 (PTI) Batting great Sachin Tendulkar said his best wishes are always with the Indian cricket team and he wi
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:
