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The first time I watched him in action was on the new year's day in 1989 playing for Mumbai against Baroda at the Dadoji Konddev Stadium in Thane. It was his first season of first class cricket but he was already famous for his world record partnership...
Spoiler alert - Don't read if you are planning to watch the movie One was desperately looking for Sachin Tendulkar's name in the credit list of the latest Bond movie 'Skyfall'. The rationale was simple. The first half of the movie rotates...
Sachin frantically calling up Bhajji just before the commencement of IPL V – “Aila, Bhajji, we have a problem on our hands. Arjun has suddenly started saying since yesterday that he wants to shift to Bengaluru and wants me to move to RCB. He says that...
Formula 1's most exciting news for few years was about the return of the King. He had left a void in the sport which other pretenders couldn't fill. Or so we thought. Schumi would turn back the ravages of time to emerge victorious as always. But...
India is a country with a lot of national holidays where holidays are defined as days on which the Indians officially don’t need to work. The variety of reasons for these national holidays vary from those with religious significance viz. Diwali, Xmas...
The biggest road party that one has ever attended had already had a smaller cousin just a few days earlier. The victory against Pakistan had seen enormous traffic at Marine Drive with people seemingly taking hours to just cross that 3km stretch in a car...
Alvin Toffler rose to fame by predicting how the world would be in the distant future by writing the path breaking Future Shock and The Third Wave. He is not to be confused with the Alvin in Alvin and the Chipmunks who is more popular now days. He had...
The frenzy of 'let's do it for Sachin' has reached unimaginable levels with all Sachin's team mates also joining the bandwagon. One is very sure that every time Yusuf Pathan goes in to bat with 100 required off 35 balls, he would be thinking...
What promised to be a 90%-10% chance day favoring Sri Lanka to win the 3 rd Test turned out to be the underdog’s supporters’ delight. Jayasuriya it seems had predicted these odds and frankly one was equally pessimistic about India’s chances going into...
It is reliably learnt that MS Dhoni is looking to own a franchise of the famous Sakshi Art Gallery in Mumbai. The name was attractive enough for his new business ventures. He is also roping in a few other cricketers as franchisees across the world. The...
‘Rooney can't take the pressure of living up to a country's lofty expectations for a week. Sachin's taken such pressure for two full decades!' This Tweet was retweeted by hundreds of (presumably) Indians either to reinforce their negative...
It seems Sachin Tendulkar is going to grace the cover page of the April issue of the Wisden Cricket magazine. For people who don’t get it, it’s the WISDEN CRICKET MAGAZINE. He has finally arrived on the international scene. A cursory glance at the previous...
After his stupendous double ton against the Saffers many politicians including the CM and the deputy CM of Maharashtra have stated that they will recommend Sachin Tendulkar’s name for the highest Indian civilian award – Bharat Ratna, for the champion...
There were tears in Umar's eyes as his entire life flashed in front of him. He remembered all those shared joys, laughter, tears and even beatings by their Abbajaan. The day when K bhai took the blame of making a defective bat on himself, was forever...
This is what Sachin Tendulkar asked Dinesh Karthik with less than 15 runs required to win and SRT in his nineties. Now Dinesh Karthik (DK) on the field reminds one of a cat on a hot tin roof. Not like a cat which has 8 lives safely stacked away in the...
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