He is the world's richest cricketer with an estimated wealth in excess of a billion rupees (Rs 1000 cr). It is a tag he may lose soon enough to the likes of MS Dhoni. But then Sachin Tendulkar is also one of the world's humblest cricketers. That is a tag he will carry for the rest of his life beyond the cricket field.
Walking down the steps to prac tice at the Wankhade Stadium on Tuesday, Tendulkar was already struggling to cope with the cricketer’s myriad paraphernalia his trademark super light pads, thigh guards, gloves, abdomen guard, two heavy bats and the ubiquitous helmet hanging by the chin strap from his left hand.
There was this young cricketer dressed in cream flannels who was sticking his notebook out through a break in the fencing from the adjacent stand for an autograph.
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More than 5,000 people have fled their homes in western Indonesia in recent day
s following a series of violent volcanic eruptions, an official said on Tuesday.
Mount Sinabung on the north of Sumatra island has been hurling out red-hot ash, rocks and torrents of glowing lava up to seven kilometres (four miles) into the air since the start of the month.
Villagers from nearby Karo district are being evacuated as the volcano, which erupted in Septembe...
News that US intelligence services tapped the phones of allied leaders has generated understandable outrage in Europe. But far more significant is the
American governme
nt's practiceof monitoring the communications of mil...
Apple and Samsung are returning to court in one of the most high-profile patent battles of recent times.
In August 2012, a jury fou
nd Samsung guilty of infringing six Apple patents and awarded one of the largest payouts of its kind on record.
The verdict and $1bn (£626m) awarded in damages were seen as a massive victory for Apple.
This is just one of many patent cases the two companies are fighting in courtrooms across the world.
In March 2013, a judge re-examined the $1bn awarded to Apple and reduced ...
Thor: The Dark World," the latest blockbuster based on Marvel's iconic comic book character, took a hefty $86.1 million in its opening weekend, figures from Exhibitor Relations showed.
Starring Australian heartthrob Chris Hemsworth as the hammer-wielding son of Odin, the movie is a follow-up to the franchise's 2011 money-spinning first installment, "Thor."
Although the opening was far less lucrative than other recent superhero movies in the "Iro...
A former senior F
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executive has issued a passionate call for a wide-ranging debate over the future of the game before the governing body's next presidential election in 2015, warning that a "coronation" for any candidate could be disastrous for football.
Jérôme Champagne, a former French diplomat who spent 11 years at Fifa in a variety of roles including deputy general secretary before being ousted in 2010 in a coup led ...
