A sports magazine remembered, 25 years later

It's 25 years this week since Sportsweek, the popular sports magazine in India, shut down. Clayton Murzello in Mid-Day recalls what the magazine meant to him, sports fans, cricketers and how having Sunil Gavaskar as its editor built the brand.

Sportsweek and Lifestyle thrived on Gavaskar's goodwill. During West Indies' 1987-88 tour of India, Gavaskar not only interviewed Vivian Richards, but also got him to pose as a Maharaja and a boxer for photographer Rajeev Asgaonkar. Of course, Sportsweek was no stranger to Richards, who wrote for the magazine during his 1983 tour to India.