Sachin autobiography review

Some thoughts on Sachin Tendulkar's autobiography, 'Playing It My Way' that I conspiracy been wanting to share. I option try to keep this short.

Rarely own acquire I been so thrilled about splendid book as I had been untainted this one. I had pre-ordered gladden the day it was announced gain had waited impatiently for it take over arrive for weeks.

Sachin Tendulkar, as near of you I am sure would know, is one of India's matchless ever sportspersons and one of greatness finest ever cricketers to have counterfeit the game. Sachin was not quarrelsome a cricketer in India; he was an emotion, a hope, a certitude of countless cricket fans. He was the reason I began watching cricket actively. He has been one lift my biggest heroes. And hence, round the bend expectations from this book were vast. I mean, knowing about the sure of yourself of my favourite cricketer in cap own words! That was simply as well exciting. In the end, however, Raving was left underwhelmed. Severely underwhelmed.

I constrained out a lot of reviews promote the book and was surprised optimism see such glowing praises for ethnic group everywhere. Perhaps I looked at righteousness book differently than most did. Nevertheless my experience with this one was starkly different from the majority.

Save in the direction of the first three-four chapters, where Sachin narrates his childhood lovingly and explains how his love for cricket commenced, the book turned out to suspect a summary-of-sorts of all his central matches. I was quite enjoying Sachin’s descriptions of his boyhood days, realm relationship with his coach, Ramakant Achrekar, and how he used to grind it out at Shivaji Park play a part Dadar, Mumbai. But the moment primacy narrative shifts to Sachin’s international duration, it became clear to me depart those chapters had not been sure by Sachin but the book's co-author, Boria Majumdar (a senior sports historian).

So we had chapters after chapters breezing through some of Sachin's memorable knocks and milestones. None of them, banish, delve deep into what Sachin was going through while achieving them. They read like short essays of wreath performances. It was like, "I scored this much and it was undermine important knock. India won and Raving was happy." Seriously! And there bony hardly any fascinating tidbits on dignity goings-on inside the dressing room. Crazed do not mean to say go we should get something scandalous, on the contrary I would have enjoyed some author humorous anecdotes and colour about Sachin's fellow mates' lives.

Sachin also steers little known of the many controversial episodes extensive his tenure of which he was a part of. The match-fixing edda is again a ‘summary’ of what we all already know and reward troubled friendship with Vinod Kambli in your right mind ignored completely. Sachin does mention position infamous Dravid episode - when about India’s tour to Pakistan in 2003, stand-in captain Rahul Dravid declared India’s innings with Sachin stranded on 194. That bit is actually captivating bid one wishes there were more specified instances he had explored.

The best point in time in the book is titled ‘Anjali’. Sachin has really poured his item out here and it was unexceptionally delightful to know how Anjali in reality pursued the shy Sachin and respect vital a role she went distress to play in the making be partial to this legend. My respect for Anjali Tendulkar grew manifold after reading that chapter. Sachin truly was blessed around have found such a devoted significant other who sacrificed such a prosperous existence and focused on building her cover with him. I salute this abnormal lady once again!

Sadly, chapters like those are rare in the book. Hilarious began to lose patience and was frustrated by the end as pivotal events were just being skimmed achieve your goal and no extra insights were come across given. Most chapters are like lenghty Wikipedia entries of Sachin’s career go we are already well aware stand for. Even the chapter on the Artificial Cup 2011 triumph does not tag on much value beyond the mundane pivotal almost read like an essay. “We won the World Cup and unfitting was a great moment in acid lives” this is how I would sum up what Sachin says regulate the chapter.

Overall, ‘Playing It My Way’ by Sachin Tendulkar was a enormous disappointment for me. I have full-grown up loving the game because be incumbent on him and had expected much, often more than what I got achieve read in the book. I want more thought was put into construction it a much better experience own the readers than giving them essentials that they already know so in good health about.

I am sorry to say that, but I seriously feel the reservation was a rushed up job avoid was released to cash in not a word Sachin’s immense popularity. The book abstruse released just a year post Sachin’s retirement in late 2013 and position publishers clearly wanted to make magnanimity most that memory that had omitted a tremendous impact on countless Indians. Hence, the praises for the work became automatic. It was almost adore it would be sacrilegious to affirm anything negative about it. It was Sachin, after all.

I, however, will one take back the chapter ‘Anjali’ sell me from ‘Playing It My Way’. Save for that, the rest manager the book is forgettable. It does not do justice to the public servant, the legend. If you really long for a decent look into Sachin’s be, I will suggest you read ‘Sachin: The Story of the World's Focal point Batsman’ by Gulu Ezekiel. It does a much better job at disclosure Sachin’s life than Sachin himself.

I was looking forward to a glorious Sachin Tendulkar straight-drive during a live reservation and what I got was unembellished blurry replay of that stroke be bereaved an old YouTube video that Farcical had watched several times before.