Book Review: - Playing it
my way.
SACHIN TENDULKAR.
Written by:-Boria
Majumdar.
Sachin Tendulkar! A man
and a name is just enough to for many Indians. A man who changed our life; a
man who played a passionate cricket for 24 years; a man who gave many Indians
moments of Happiness from 1990-2013.
Sachin is the greatest
run-scorer and run-chaser in the history of the Indian Cricket. He remains the
most celebrated cricketer of all the time in the Indian and World history.
He received the prestigious Bharat Ratna – India’s highest civilian honour award
on the day of his retirement.
In this book, he tells his
life story from the beginning. One of the finest saying is been told in this
book by his Father who was well-known writer Ramesh Tendulkar.
“Son, your life is a
book. It has numerous chapters. It also has many lessons in it. It is made up
of a wide variety of experiences and resembles a pendulum where success and failure,
joy and sorrow are merely extremes of the central reality. Lessons to be learnt
from success and failure are equally important. More often, failure and
sorrows are the biggest teachers than success and happiness. You are fortunate
to represent your country, and this is the greatest honour. But never forget that
this too is the other chapter of the book. How many years the person plays the
cricket? Twenty years; if you are good, maybe it will take twenty-five years.
Even by that yardstick, you will live most of your years outside the sphere of
professional sport. This clearly means that there is more life than cricket. Do not allow the success to breed arrogance in you. If you remain humble,
you will receive love and respect. As a parent, I would be happy to listen,’’
Sachin is a good human being” then “Sachin is a great cricketer” any day.’’
This teaching from his
father is for everyone. Being born in the middle-class family and the son
of the writer, Sachin always remained humble and away from the cricketing
glamour throughout life even after retirement from the cricket. His father was
a well-known Marathi poet and professor and his mother was working in LIC. Sachin
was growing in the middle-class family culture which made him perfect and idle gentlemen
throughout his life.
Never a cricketer was
carrying a burden of many expectations; never a cricketer performed at such a
high level for so long time; never a cricketer scored so many runs for many years
in the Test and one day cricket and T-20.
He played a crucial role
in winning a world-cup 2011. Along with it, he too faced a share of frustration
and failure- from the injuries and early World Cup exits in 2007 along with his
unhappy captaincy tenure. This book covers everything from his life. From his
childhood to teachings on Shivaji Park to the First tour of Pakistan and ahead of many
things.
Despite being a celebrity,
Sachin has always remained a very private man; devoted to family and country.
He remained humble and down to earth person. He will always be a role model
for all the young people of India. He never created any shortcuts for his
success. He dreamed of cricket; he lived cricket.
This book will even teach
you some of the biggest lessons of life.
Don’t read this for a Cricketer
Sachin; read this for a boy; who was born in the middle-class family of the Marathi
poet; and later he dreamed, and he chased it till he was a ''SACHIN TENDULKAR.''
Many cricketers will come
and retire but no one can be a SACHIN TENDULKAR and no one can receive loud applause
in the ground in the chorus
SACHINNNNN! SACHINNNN!
©
Kaushik
