Michael Schumacher enjoyed a long and illustrious career, much like Sachin Tendulkar. As Tendulkar plays in his swansong series, the Formula 1 legend says retirement is something the cricketing icon can look forward to.
A group of 24-year-olds including bowler Varun Aaron, born in the year Sachin Tendulkar made his international debut, speak about not having seen Indian cricket without the maestro, and vacuum his retirement will leave behind.
My earliest memory of Sachin Tendulkar dates back to 1989 when he started playing for India. I was five years old and in school and like everyone else in the nation had heard about this new, 16-year-old batting phenomenon.
sportspersons, whose retirement left many heartbroken.
Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar, who has been involved with advertising campaigns such Adidas, Coca Cola, Luminous, Toshiba and Boost, will now be seen in a commercial for German automobile car giant BMW. The advertising firm has released a television commercial of Tendulkar driving a BMW 1 Series car. The advertisement also features FIA GT1 racer Armaan Ebrahim.
When Sachin Tendulkar entered the Indian dressing room as a precocious, baby-faced 16-year old, one of the first things team members noted was his incredible zest for the game; it bordered on the obsession — even while sleeping! It’s an obsession that has remained till date as many who were not even born when Tendulkar started playing international cricket shared the dressing room with him. To last for two decades in any sport is truly amazing. But what is almost unparalleled in any sports is the intensity which Tendulkar has retained in 24 years and performed. Apart from the physical wear and tear, there is also the inevitable mental fatigue factor, the sheer ennui of having to do the same monotonous things day in and day out, while sacrificing many, many things in life that will never ever comeback — the wedding anniversaries, the joy of seeing the children grow, their birthdays, the joyous family occasions, the need to spend time with an ageing mother…. Those are priceless moments in life.
Leading news magazine Time eulogised Sachin Tendulkar as one in front of whom time appeared to have stood frozen. The champion batsman announced his retirement from One-day international (ODI) cricket Sunday.
Veteran cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who waved the chequered flag at the inaugural Indian Grand Prix, will miss the second edition of the Formula One race to play a Ranji match for his Mumbai team. It has been learnt that Tendulkar, who is a motorsports enthusiast, decided to prefer practising with the team...
By CricketCountry Staff Sachin Tendulkar’s love for cars is well known and the Indian batting star boasts of a garage filled with the best cars offered by luxury and sports car makers, from Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari to Porsche and BMW.
By CricketCountry Staff
Sachin Tendulkar’s love for cars is well known and the Indian batting star boasts of a garage filled with the best cars offered by luxury and sports car makers, from Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari to Porsche and BMW.
Ravichandran Ashwin’s rollicking century on the fourth day provided entertaining consolation.