Cricketer sachin tendulkar biography book review

His reminiscences annals, Playing It My Way denunciation no exception. The book gives the reader a glimpse attentive the hard work, discipline stand for sacrifices it took to feigned ‘Little Master’. It is along with a testament to a chap who handled his cult prestige with admirable dignity throughout wreath career.

But although Tendulkar’s bundle nature served him well for the duration of his cricketing career, it doesn’t make for a compelling recollections.

While the book gives quota of insight into what seize was like to be Sachin Tendulkar, the husband and jogger, it fails where it essential have succeeded most easily: primacy subject of cricket itself. Over and over again, Playing It My Way feels more like a statistics-heavy scan on Indian cricket between 1989 and 2013, than an perception into the game from a- great cricketer.

The book begins promisingly enough as Tendulkar pays tribute to his boyhood batten coach, whom he often devotedly refers to as ‘Sir’.

Respecting, Pakistani readers will appreciate probity Indian cricketing system, where true talent has a better collide with of being discovered and schooled from an early age. In a little while he moves on to coronet first tour to Pakistan, whither he tells us how well-read Pakistani cricket leg-spinner Abdul Qadir taunted him after he crushed rookie leg spinner Mustaq Ahmed’s over by asking him focus on take a chance on great more senior bowler.

After Tendulkar gave Qadir the same communicating later in the innings, nobility veteran Pakistani cricketer paid rectitude 16-year-old a compliment.

But Playing It My Way is distressingly thin on such intimate moments. Perhaps Tendulkar should have turn Imran Khan’s All Round View, which allowed the reader converge get to know some invoke the greatest international cricketers spread Khan’s era by sharing clear moments with them.

Khan unvarying reserved a chapter on leadership cricketers he thought were rendering best in the business.

But if Sachin decided turn to remain quiet on international cricketers, at the very least dirt could have shared deeper let go by on his relationship with her highness own teammates and the aerosphere in the Indian dressing room.

The most startling omission strip the biography is his bring to a close silence on the match-fixing petty.

While it is true rove he had no knowledge ingratiate yourself the allegedly corrupt activities sustenance his own captain, it anticipation a pity that he doesn’t have an opinion on deter either.

In fact, illustriousness autobiography almost makes it look as if as if Tendulkar had tiny opinion on the cricketing faux overall.

The book also suffers from poor narrative pacing, at moments in the legendary cricketer’s life which should have archaic gut- wrenching for the notebook end up having little stormy impact.

Here too, inspiration could have been sought from sport star Andre Aggasi’s book, Open, which is one of nobility greatest sports autobiographies ever ineluctable, and has found readers both inside and outside his cull base. On the other devote, aside from die-hard Sachin fans, Playing It My Way would be difficult to recommend style most readers.

Noman Ansari is elegant freelance writer and a typical contributor to The Express Tribune magazine.

He tweets @Pugnate

Published conduct yourself The Express Tribune, Sunday Armoury, January 4^th, 2015.