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Sachin Tendulkar desert storm

Sachin Tendulkar is great poster for humility: Asif Iqbal

Former Pakistan captain Asif Iqbal regarded Sachin Tendulkar as a great poster for humility and recounted some of the memories of the Little Master playing at Sharjah. Tendulkar played a few matches for Iqbal’s Cricketers Benefit Fund Series (CBFS) which provided him a platform to play some of his best innings at the venue.

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Sachin Tendulkar retirement: Goodbyes are never easy, especially when it’s to the last link to your childhood

While book cricket and audio cassettes are now relics of a happy past, Tendulkar is still very much a part of our lives — though not for very long. In about two weeks' time, he will walk out to bat for India for the last time ever. Some of the televisions that will be turned off after he gets out in Mumbai during November 14-18, 2013, may never turn on a cricket channel again.

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If Sachin Tendulkar had not played for India, how things could possibly have unfolded for the country in the last 24 years

The vast majority of India, and millions overseas, have not known a world without Sachin Tendulkar batting for India. What would have happened if the master had not played at all? How would Indian cricket have progressed along the years? How would the batting records of the world have fared? And finally, whom would the press and public have targeted for allegations of selfishness?  Arunabha Sengupta and Abhishek Mukherjee go down an imaginary lane.

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Sachin Tendulkar belted us all over the park at Sharjah: Adam Gilchrist

Two days ahead of Sachin Tendulkar's 40th birthday, the legendary Adam Gilchrist recalled the veteran Indian's match-winning innings that had knocked the stuffing out of the Australian bowlers way back in 1998 at Sharjah.

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Sachin Tendulkar is the quintessential nationalist who has sacrificed a lot for the country: Boney Kapoor

Renowned Bollywood producer Boney Kapoor described the joy of watching batting legend Sachin Tendulkar play while talking to Boria Mazumdar for a special edition of the Outlook magazine.

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Sachin Tendulkar – soul that inspired a generation of young people

We know it’s always been country first for Sachin Tendulkar, yet his gesture of pointing to the Indian flag on reaching his 100th international hundred brought tears to my eyes.

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