Playing It My Way: Autobiography

It was a very good book

Amazing read for inspiration from the so called GOD of Cricket.shows what hard work and perseverance brings back in terms of Success and appreciation. Great read .

Sachin Tendulkar's autobiography "Sachin Tendulkar: Playing It My Way" is amazing to read because his rise to greatness was the result of a single-minded all consuming purpose and focus on playing the game at the highest levels of achievement.This book is a particularly inspiring sports story because the challenge to be the best in the sport or for one's country is so intense.It has some great ancillary reader benefits. In India, family is everything. Through Tendulkar, this book provides an excellent portrait of classic Indian values including dedication, persistence and resilience. He is proud of his achievements but explains them modestly. Reading this book, he seems like such a great, great sports hero, setting such a great example for Indian youth or any youth in any sport anywhere in the world.If you're at all curious about cricket as compared to baseball (with the average winning score seeming so high by comparison) this a great book. There are similarities together with lots of differences. Like an American elevator is called a "lift," cricket players "bowl" rather than "pitch" the ball. And the "pitch" refers to the field rather than how the ball is thrown. If you have a really good knowledge of cricket, you'll especially appreciate how Tendulkar gives quite a few explanations of several technical aspects of the game.Tendulkar's account of his early experience in cricket and the encouragement and support of his dad and mom, his friends and his coaches, makes this a very accessible book to an American audience, especially parents whose children take up baseball.All the spoken Hindi, although there is not a lot of it, is well translated into English.There are four pages of mostly color photos of Tendulkar, his family and highlights of his career. And Tendulkar's career statistics are listed in the back of the book.It is written "Tendulkar is to Cricket what Michael Jordan is to Basketball and Muhammad Ali is to Boxing." His autobiography, "Playing It My Way" will tell you exactly how that came to be.

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Well written book that gives you an insight into the life of one of the most important cricket players of all time. A humble description of a life strained with hardship and with a lot of accomplishments. A good read.

Well being SACHIN admirer; this note will be slightly bias. Got many links from web-world to download the book. But when I saw APANALAYA message “The author’s proceeds from this book will be used to support two charitable causes: the alleviation of malnutrition in children and provision of clean water to the underprivileged” This prompted me to buy this from AMAZON Rs.586/- Order ID 403-0333455-3913113. !Well this is how is the book is; full of statistics of his illustrious achievement. For most part it feels that you are watching / reading SACHIN’S life in text format. It is so simple, plain, and straight from the maestro who just tried to attempt to fulfill the teachings of his father that “It is important to be a better human being then better cricketer.”The controversy hungry media or rowdy fans looking for some inhuman bravado or greedy followers urging to achieve more and more may find themselves in similar mood that they experienced after SACHIN getting out soon.I have followed his cricket life closely and was wondering what would have the great man be thinking at those key moments (which could be cracking a great shot or walking back to pavilion). I got fairly good answers and just explanation of all those gestures, unheard muttering to his colleagues, and silence of his mind after being outdone legitimately or not.Yes he put down his feeling very honestly of most of those scenes that I watched on TV. I was quite satisfied that these thoughts were quite close to the expectations and similar to what we use to discuss after the game.Thank you SCHIN for sharing your hardship of injury, anguish for bad umpiring, tears from failures, victim of many human errors, sense of loss, along with the happiness of personal circle, contended and satisfied feeling of accomplishing the life at it best. Acknowledging the support and co-operation from people that were with you and in return giving some glorious moments to cherish for ever.Thank you dear SACHIN, Take Care, All the best.