Sachin : the story of the world's greatest batsman

He s a god in India and people believe luck shines in his hand . . . It is beyond chaos It is a frantic appeal by a nation to one man. Matthew Hayden on Sachin Tendulkar In the twenty years that he has been in the public eye, Sachin Tendulkar has been explosive on the cricket field and just as reticent off it. He was barely fifteen years old when he first wrote his name into record books with a stupendous 664-run partnership with his childhood friend Vinod Kambli. A few months later, he struck his first century in first-class cricket. At seventeen he became the second youngest man to make a hundred in international cricket, and after that there was no looking back. Today, Sachin is widely regarded as the world s finest Batsman, with impeccable technique, an incredible array of strokes, and maturity far beyond his years. In this biography of the hero of Indian cricket, sports writer Gulu Ezekiel mines interviews, press reports and conversations over the last two decades and more to create an accurate and sympathetic account of the man and his first passion: cricket. He tracks Sachin from his childhood when he first caught the bug of cricket, through his early performances in the Ranji Trophy and other domestic tournaments, and follows him on his meteoric rise to international stardom. With unfailing attention to detail, he reconstructs the crucial matches and events that marked Sachin s career and unravels for us the magic of the charismatic cricketer whom Wisden Cricket Monthly once dubbed bigger than Jesus . scan0001......Page 1 scan0002......Page 2 scan0003......Page 3 scan0004......Page 4 scan0005......Page 5 scan0006......Page 6 scan0007......Page 7 scan0008......Page 8 scan0009......Page 9 scan0010......Page 10 scan0011......Page 11 scan0012......Page 12 scan0013......Page 13 scan0014......Page 14 scan0015......Page 15 scan0016......Page 16 scan0017......Page 17 scan0018......Page 18 scan0019......Page 19 scan0020......Page 20 scan0021......Page 21 scan0022......Page 22 scan0023......Page 23 scan0024......Page 24 scan0025......Page 25 scan0026......Page 26 scan0027......Page 27 scan0028......Page 28 scan0029......Page 29 scan0030......Page 30 scan0031......Page 31 scan0032......Page 32 scan0033......Page 33 scan0034......Page 34 scan0035......Page 35 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scan0211......Page 211 scan0212......Page 212 scan0213......Page 213 scan0214......Page 214 scan0215......Page 215 scan0216......Page 216 scan0217......Page 217 scan0218......Page 218 scan0219......Page 219 scan0220......Page 220 In the twelve years that he has been in the public eye, Sachin Tendulkar has been explosive on the cricket field and just as reticent off it. He was barely fifteen years old when he first wrote his name into the record books with a stupendous 664-run partnership with his childhood friend Vinod Kambli. Two year later, he struck his first century in first-class cricket. At eighteen, he became the second youngest man to make a hundred in international cricket, and after that there was no looking back. Records tumbled by the wayside as he captivated audiences first in his home city of Mumbai, then in the rest of India and all over the cricket-playing world. Today, Sachin is widely accepted as the world's finest batsman, with impeccable technique, an incredible array of strokes, and maturity far beyond his years. His teammates and friends swear by him, his fans worship him and there are few, if any, critics of his game or his temperament. In this biography of the hero of Indian cricket, sports writer Gulu Ezekiel mines interviews, press reports and conversations over the last decade to create an accurate and sympathetic account of the man and his first cricket. He tracks Sachin from his childhood when he first caught the bug of cricket, through his early performances in the Ranji Trophy and other domestic tournaments, and follows him on his meteoric rise to international stardom. With unfailing attention to detail, he reconstructs the crucial matches and events that marked Sachin's career and unravels for us the magic of the charismatic cricketer whom Wisden once dubbed 'bigger than Jesus'. The Story of the World's Greatest Batsman , the first, serious exhaustive biography of the Tendulkar career so far, brings back, like a warm autumn breeze does, the memory of the wunderkind's early exhilarating summers in international cricket...The book is akin to a documentary in prose...the book's big virtue is that it is laboriously researched and cross-referenced. For any quizzer on Mastermind India opting for "The Life and Times of Sachin Tendulkar" as their specialist subject there's good news. You just got yourself the ready reckoner that covers 1973-2002. He scored his maiden first-class century on debut at 15; his first Test ton came when he was just 17. Biography of Sachin Tendulkar, b. 1973, cricket player from India