The Surfer

The dawn of a new era

With the curtains closing on Sachin Tendulkar's illustrious career, Sidin Vadukut, writing for Quartz, believes that the batsmen's retirement can reinvigorate Indian cricket. Tunku Varadarajan, writing for New York Times, believes that Tendulkar should ha

16-Nov-2013

The Tendulkar phenomenon

Clayton Murzello of Mid Day, talks to Suhas Marathe, a blind cricket statistician, about his love for the game, and for Sachin Tendulkar. Ramachandra Guha and Matthew Engel writing for BBC and Financial Times respectively, discuss Tendulkar's stake in the

15-Nov-2013

Big, fat Indian wedding in Mumbai

Harsha Bhogle, in an open letter in the Indian Express, congratulates Sachin Tendulkar on a frutiful career and says the final match is not going to be any different from a big fat Indian wedding

15-Nov-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

The tale of Vijay Zol

Sai Prasad Mohapatra, writing for Open, visits Vijay Zol's residence in Jalna, and talks to him, his coach Raju Kane, his elder brother Vikram Zol, his father Hari Zol, as well as Vijay's friends, to learn more about the captain of India's Under-19 team,

11-Nov-2013

The world around Sachin Tendulkar

Star Sports looks back at Sachin Tendulkar's impressive milestones over the years, while Suresh Menon, writing for Outlook India, believes that the batsman was, for the large part of his career, immune to criticism and bad press because of his legion of f

11-Nov-2013

India's next generation primed and ready

India's young batsmen have worked for their places in the Test line-up, continue to keep their focus, and have done well enough to breed confidence going into the tough overseas tours that the team has lined up, says Aditya Iyer in the Indian Express
10-Nov-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Autobiographies- a chance to reflect, a chance to vent
Dirk Nannes, writing for All Out Cricket believes that autobiographies gives players a chance to reflect and vent about their careers
08-Nov-2013

'Sport was the making of me'
Gideon Haigh, writing for the Spectator, reviews Ricky Ponting's autobiography At the Close of Play, arguing that the book is merely a honest and humble account on the player's life, rather than a controversial bandwagon that it has been made out to be
08-Nov-2013

No wit in sledging anymore
In the wake of Shane Warne's criticism of Alastair Cook's captaincy, Marina Hyde in the Guardian ponders if sledging is as witty as it is conceived to be
07-Nov-2013

Train umpires instead of investing in DRS
n an academic paper, excerpted at Phys.Org and soon to be published in the Journal of Sports Economics, Vani Borooah tries to identify the exact value that DRS brings to cricket.
07-Nov-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Visiting Tendulkar's childhood colony
Sachin Tendulkar spent the first 28 years of his life in the Mumbai neighbourhood of Sahitya Sahawas, a locality that is a far cry from the city depicted in popular culture
06-Nov-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Warne's barbs rebound
Shane Warne's comments about Ricky Ponting and Alastair Cook - among other subjects - have predictably stirred up various responses in the media
05-Nov-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Want to make last two Tests special - Dhoni
MS Dhoni doesn't often give interviews, but given the topic was Sachin Tendulkar, he spoke at length about his first tryst with Tendulkar, how he broke ice with the senior batsman and how the team plans to handle Tendulkar's last series
05-Nov-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Acts of callousness degrade India-Australia series
04-Nov-2013

Farewell or parody?
Sachin Tendulkar's retirement, while an epochal moment for Indian cricket, need not be an occasion for the wide-eyed idolatry that comes too easily to Indians, according to Business Standard
04-Nov-2013

'Please call me Sachin'
Sachin Rana tells the Times of India how his whole identity was shaped after the success of Sachin Tendulkar
02-Nov-2013

Australia's smiling assassin
Andrew Wu, writing for the Sydney Morning Herald, talks to a number of people about George Bailey, and details the rise of Australia's ODI captain through the ranks
02-Nov-2013

The curious case of Pravin Tambe
In an interview with Lhendup G Bhutia for Open, Tambe talks about his career and exposure to fame
01-Nov-2013

Australia look to England for improvement
31-Oct-2013

Ryder's toughest comeback
29-Oct-2013

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