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Sportsmen above 40
Sat, September 13 2014
Viswanathan Anand, Sachin Tendulkar and Leander Paes: Three legends without parallel
"Whenever I saw Ken coming to the wicket I thought a Union Jack was trailing behind him," Wally Grout, the Australian wicketkeeper, famously said of Englishman Ken Barrington. Borrowing Grout’s thoughts, one can say without any fear of contradiction that the Indian tricolour flutter proudly when Viswanathan Anand, Sachin Tendulkar and Leander Paes take their places in their respective sporting endeavours. Arunabha Sengupta looks at the fabulous careers of the troika, all past age 40, who continue to be the heartbeats of the nation.