DomainK Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 TEXT BY AYAZ MEMON PHOTO BY SANTOSH BANE The year is 1990, we’re still in the first half. I am on balmy Marine Drive, driving my spluttering Yezdi to VT where I write on sports for the still-new The Independent. A Maruti 800 zips past me near the Police Gymkhana. The driver’s face looks vaguely familiar. It couldn’t…or could it be Sachin Tendulkar? Isn’t he, at not-yet 17, underage to be driving a car? I tail the Maruti, it stops on the sea face at Parsi Gymkhana. It IS Tendulkar. Instead of walking the distance to the main entrance of the gymkhana, Tendulkar, who has played seven Tests and is already the toast of the cricket world, impatiently vaults over the wall and sprints towards the pavilion where his teammates are waiting. Why walk, when you can run? Why be demure when you can dance? His impatience to get into the maidan and in the thick of cricketing battle is undisguised. Acting on a ‘reporter’s hunch’ that he would take the same route the next day too, I ask photographer Santosh Bane to go to the ground next day, station himself near the boundary and capture Tendulkar in mid-air if he jumps off the wall again. Well, he did. And Bane got his photo. For me nothing has captured Tendulkar’s exuberance for a of cricket better than this moment. Thank you, Ayaz Memon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomainK Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 Not sure if it has been posted before. I am guessing not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detonator Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 nice find :hatsoff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLICKR392 Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 I posted it this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidhoni Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 TFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricketics Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Never saw this one before. Thanks for sharing. Brilliant. Another one of those epic pics of Tendulkar which defines plenty of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganeshran Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 great fotu :hatsoff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniac Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 :nice: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akshayxyz Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 brilliant :nice: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiten. Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 :hatsoff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikred Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Awesome pic. :two_thumbs_up: But the pic is so 90's...the car....the way tendu is dressed. :cantstop: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Awesome pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StriKe Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 :nice: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desi Cartman Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Why is it black and white :wall: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuge Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 this is better jump than sreesanth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Why is it black and white :wall: it looks really nice in black & white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akshayxyz Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Why is it black and white :wall: there are some forums on reddit, where if you request, lot of people would colorize it for free. http://www.reddit.com/r/picrequests/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akshayxyz Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 I already placed request. http://www.reddit.com/r/picrequests/comments/1qtst0/can_someone_please_colorize_these_two_childhood/ You guys can vote up the thread to make it more visible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 IMO black 7 white adds more character to this picture. It wont look so good in colored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 And a gross violation of privacy by a journalist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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