CARDIFF: As the Champions Trophy meanders towards its business end, the talk here does not centre around India’s opponent in the semifinals. Rather, it is around the lines of who will be lucky enough not to run into the Group B toppers in the knockout match.

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LONDON: India’s fearless opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan is doing the unthinkable at the Champions Trophy — making fans forget Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir.

Those three were the pillars of Indian batting till the recent past with Tendulkar the world’s [...]

DUBAI: Former captain Anil Kumble on Sunday said India will miss the services of Sachin Tendulkar when they enter the field for the first time without the batting great in a world-level tournament but insisted the team has enough young talent to do the job in the Champions Trophy.

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MUMBAI: In the past few days, the media has been gunning for India skipper MS Dhoni, criticizing him for remaining silent on an issue that saw some top board officials quit on Friday.

But the veil of silence adopted by some top former cricketers is no less intriguing. Even Sachin Tendulkar [...]

NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar, MP, India’s top cricketing icon known to choose his words wisely, on Friday broke his silence on the betting-fixing scandal and the crisis gripping the game’s administrators, BCCI, following president N Srinivasan’s bull-headed denial that there was any crisis at all.

“It has always hurt me when [...]

NEW DELHI: Breaking his silence on the raging spot-fixing scandal, Sachin Tendulkar on Friday said that the developments of the last two weeks were “shocking and disappointing” and the faith reposed by the millions of fans in the game should be justified.

Tendulkar said the authorities must take [...]

MUMBAI: The scenes were eerily similar to the night of April 2, 2011. That Saturday night saw an invasion of bleed blue at the Wankhede, after India clinched the World Cup and the players hoisted Sachin Tendulkar on their shoulders and took a lap of honour.

Cut to May 26, 2013 [...]

KOLKATA: Describing Sachin Tendulkar as the backbone of Mumbai Indians, Ambati Rayudu dedicated the team’s maiden IPL triumph to the senior batsman who has announced his retirement from the event.

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“I think he is the one who is the [...]

KOLKATA: Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar, who called it quits from the IPL after Mumbai Indians lifted the title, said it was the perfect time to retire from the Twenty20 event as he has to “face the reality” after turning 40.

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KOLKATA: Sachin Tendulkar on Sunday night announced his retirement from the cash-rich Indian Premier League soon after Mumbai Indians won their maiden title defeating Chennai Super Kings by 23 runs in the final.

“For World Cup I had to wait for 21 years but for [...]