Sambit Bal

The man whom cricket loved back

Sambit Bal: Tendulkar was the biggest worshipper the game could ever find, and in that lay the foundation of his greatness

Sharda Ugra

His perfect balance

Sharda Ugra: While the team, the country and the sport changed around him, Tendulkar remained constant

Rahul Bose

Why do we insist on seeing the 'real' Sachin?

Rahul Bose: You can ask as much as you want for a more "human", more "feelable, touchable" Sachin, but he'll probably not change - and that's a good thing

The grand piano has left the building

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan: Everybody has a Tendulkar story. Everybody has a hole inside them now that he has gone

Dignity and humility

There were tears all around the Wankhede Stadium on Saturday. Here ESPNcricinfo's India staffers write on how it felt to watch him bid farewell

Mark Nicholas

David to a thousand Goliaths

Mark Nicholas: Tendulkar has become a national symbol of optimism and pride but when he bats, we still see him as an underdog

Features

Tendulkar's Mumbai

As the cricketing world goes into a farewell frenzy, the city's humble playgrounds that moulded him into the cricketer he is today remain as simple and unpretentious as ever

Diary

Kolkata's 'Sachin festival'

Eager administrators, grateful artists, and irate fans - Sidharth Monga gets a peek into a one-man industrial complex

Ed Smith

Forever icon

Ed Smith: In some ways, we know less about Tendulkar now than before: the more he has played, the more godlike and inscrutable he has become

Tribute

His last waltz

Vaibhav Vats: At the 2011 World Cup we witnessed the last of Tendulkar's greatness, just before it began slipping away from him

Tribute

The first of a hundred

Ayaz Memon, a member of the Indian press pack on the 1990 England tour, recalls how the first brick in a historic era was laid

Tribute

'Never saw him irritated'

VVS Laxman chats about how much he learnt from Tendulkar, and the time he changed his stance and scored a brilliant hundred

Feature

Dangerous pitches, and a first-ball six

Before Tendulkar shot to fame at the first-class and international levels, he set the Mumbai club circuit on fire

Interviews

A ride with Sachin

In this 2004 interview to Sambit Bal, Tendulkar speaks about his 15 years in cricket and how the game, and his approach to it, have changed

Tendulkar v Pakistan

Osman Samiuddin remembers watching Tendulkar's controlled and ruthless batting in Multan and elsewhere

A Zen master

Simon Barnes: Tendulkar seems to have the ability to remain untouched by the circumstances of the match or the personality of the bowler

The Sachin I know

Sunandan Lele, a veteran journalist who has known Tendulkar for over 25 years, talks about the man behind the public persona

Mike Marqusee

A singular icon

Tendulkar dominates his sport comprehensively, but is also the sole focus of an entire nation and its quest for identity, says Mike Marqusee

Interview

Mark 3

Not the wunderkind of 15 years ago, Sachin Tendulkar talks to Cricinfo about looking at life and his game with equanimity and stoicism

Sanjay Manjrekar

A touch of Viv

Sanjay Manjrekar: In his youth, Tendulkar was the kind of attacking batsman who would have set T20 ablaze, had the format existed

Features

A one-man happiness index

Sambit Bal: It's hard to imagine a cricketer who has shared as profound a bond with such a large number of fans. We at ESPNcricinfo know this first hand

Tribute

A titanic goodbye

Sharda Ugra: For seekers of sustained excellence like Tendulkar, accepting the march of time must be tougher than we can imagine

My Favourite Cricketer

The saint

Greg Baum: His purity of technique and image make him an icon with more than a touch of the divine