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Sachin Tendulkar’s farewell signifies importance of ending on a high by announcing retirement in advance

Sachin Tendulkar scripted his retirement like no one else and left the game amidst huge applause and love from the fans. Abhijit Banare explains how perfect it can get for cricketers to announce their retirement in advance.

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Sachin Tendulkar timed his retirement well to get his due — unlike Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman

Sachin Tendulkar bid an emotional adieu to the cricket world after 24 glorious years in the sport on Saturday. While his retirement marks the end of a famous era that produced some of the greatest Indian batsmen, it is evident that the timing of his farewell was better timed than that of Rahul Dravid’s and VVS Laxman’s, keeping the Indian team and its future in mind. Devarchit Varma explains...

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Rahul Dravid: An unsung hero makes a quiet exit

Rahul Dravid has largely been in the shadow of Sachin Tendulkar, despite his humungous achievements right throughout his career. And that is how it was till the very end. When the Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) 2013 final ended the other day, Tendulkar got a hero’s farewell, while Dravid — bidding a final adieu to the game — made a quiet and unceremonious exit. Dravid would have taken it in his stride, like he has all along in his career.

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Anil Kumble says it was hard to see Rahul Dravid end career on losing note

Mumbai Indians’ chief mentor Anil Kumble said that it was hard for him to see his former teammate and Rajasthan Royals’ skipper Rahul Dravid end his cricketing career on a losing note. Mumbai defeated Rajasthan in the Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) 2013 final.

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Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid: God doesn’t make men like them any more

Like many cricket aficionados of India, this writer too found it difficult to choose as to which team to support in the final of the Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) at Ferozeshah Kotla, Delhi.

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Rahul Dravid: Retiring from Test cricket was more emotional

He has been the finest ambassador for India in the traditional form of the game and Rahul Dravid, after calling time on his cricket career, remained true to his first love — Test cricket.

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Rahul Dravid says IPL was like a drug to wean off after retiring as India cricketer

With his cricketing career coming to an end after the Champions League Twenty20 2013 final, Rahul Dravid said that playing for Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL) helped him to keep in touch with the game and step away from international cricket easily.

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Rahul Dravid: A lotus in cricket’s contaminated pond

He was called the gentlemen's gentleman. Whoever branded cricket the gentleman's game decades ago must have foreseen someone like him gracing the sport in the future. He was called "The Wall" for his robust, rock-solid, and near-impregnable defence while batting.

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Sachin Tendulkar retirement: It will be tragic if authorities buckle under pressure and force the maestro to quit

With voices clamouring for Sachin Tendulkar’s retirement, we continue to hear that he will perhaps be coaxed into hanging up his boots. Along with it the perennially volatile, headline parroting populace continue their chants, asking him to emulate Ricky Ponting and Rahul Dravid and call it a day as those two masters had done. Arunabha Sengupta checks the numbers — those perennial dampeners of such good stories — and argues why the master should still be allowed to retire on his own terms.

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Rahul Dravid says cricket made him a better human

Former Indian captain Rahul Dravid on Sunday said that cricket's influence in his life was such that the game made him a better person.

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