Sahin Tendulkar 47 short of 17,000-run milestone

October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Cricketer-turned-politician Vinod Kambli, who is contesting the Maharashtra assembly elections from Vikhroli in Mumbai will ask his childhood friend and Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar to campaign for him. Kambli said that he would request Tendulkar, who suffered food poisoning in South Africa during the Champions Trophy, to canvass for him.

September 16th, 2009 MUMBAI - Condoling the death of former BCCI chairmen Raj Singh Dungarpur, master blaster Sachin Tendulkar dedicated his 44th ODI century to the man who selected him for international cricket in 1989. "Wherever Rajbhai is he was definitely watching us yesterday and feeling happy for Indian team for having won yesterday.

September 14th, 2009 As live news comes up, just 2 minutes ago, Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar has done it again against Sri Lanka. Compaq Cup, Final Sri Lanka v India at Colombo, and Sachin couldn't have a better place to sizzle through the golden patch and makes yet another ton.

August 29th, 2009 NAGPUR - Out of favour Australian opener Phil Hughes is in Nagpur working on his apparent weaknesses against the short ball with his coach Neil D'Costa. D'Costa is looking after a cricket academy here and raves about the facilities and future.

August 6th, 2009 MUMBAI - Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar has said he is not satisfied with his achievements in the game and hopes to accumulate 15,000 Test runs and win the World Cup for India in 2011. "I am not pleased yet with what I have done.

July 31st, 2009 LONDON - Australian captain Ricky Ponting Friday became the highest Australian Test run scorer in history. Ponting passed Allan Border's former record of 11,174 runs during the first innings in the third Test against England at Edgbaston and is now third on the all time Test run scorer list behind Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, with 12,773 and 11,953 Test runs, respectively.

July 18th, 2009 NAGPUR -What will the two friends have said to each other when they met? Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli Saturday were together at a felicitation function, "Gaurav Guru Shishyancha" (in honour of mentor and disciple), with their coach Ramakant Achrekar, just days after Kambli's alleged remarks that the batting maestro did not help him during his days of struggle. Kambli, in a television reality show, was reported to have accused his childhood friend Tendulkar OF not supporting him when his cricket career was on the downslide.

July 14th, 2009 MUMBAI - Vinod Kambli Tuesday denied making any remarks against Sachin Tendulkar after a media report claimed the former cricketer had, in a reality show, accused his childhood friend of letting him down when he was going through a rough patch in his career. Kambli also said he did not say anything against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

June 14th, 2009 LONDON - Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar feels England's challenge in the Ashes this summer lies heavily on the shoulders of Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen. The eagerly-awaited series between England and Australia begins in Cardiff July 8, with the home side seen as the underdogs to regain the coveted urn.

June 14th, 2009 LONDON - Sachin Tendulkar believes that Indian-origin England batsman Ravi Bopara has the "talent to do something special". The 24-year-old is considered to be a promising talent in the English team and barring former skipper Nasser Hussain, who was born in Chennai, is the country's most significant Asian player since the second world war.

June 4th, 2009 MUMBAI - Taking an inspiration from his late father who was committed to certain social responsibilities, India's batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar has decided to sponsor the education of 200 children, who are part of Anapalya, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Mumbai. A formal function to mark this dedication by Tendulkar was organised here on Wednesday.

June 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday emphasized that the Indian squad has all the qualities to retain the Twenty20 cricket World Cup due to commence from Friday in England. Commenting on India's performance at the Twenty-20 level, he said that the Indian team looks absolutely balanced.

June 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Sachin Tendulkar in tie without a shirt, in socks without shoes and with a towel wrapped around him! This would have been any shutterbug's dream photo. But luckily for the Indian cricket star, there was no lensman to capture him in that "most embarrassing moment".

June 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - India may have started their Twenty20 World Cup campaign on a wrong foot, losing their warm-up match to New Zealand, but Sachin Tendulkar will still put his money on the defending champions to retain the title. Tendulkar said India with an explosive batting line up and a balanced team had a very good chance to successfully defend the Twenty20 World Cup title they won two years back in South Africa.

June 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar Tuesday described the maiden edition of the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) as better than the second in terms of public enthusiasm and said given a choice he would always want the event to be staged in India. "The first year of the IPL was definitely better.