Monday, November 17, 2014

Playing it My Way

Probably his legal advisers would have asked him not to say much on match fixing that brought Indian Cricket to its knees..., and there were some other issues that Sachin did not dig deep into. He could have exposed everything, but with a look at his current stature that he being a dignified member of the Upper House and adopting a Village, he has more to do. Like his Father said to him "I'd like you to be remembered as a better Human than a better Cricketer". The Book is so simple and smooth that I could get the real meaning without any assumptions, and so bland that I slept when I was half way through the Book :p
The book is a playback of all his important innings. The early cricketing days were interesting. Sachin claims that he's a naughty kid with some illustrations :) Well, we don't consider those as naughty and those are pretty boring..He should have grown with us (he he). I thought Kambli and he were thick friends during the early days, and expected a lot, considering the rapo of Kambli. He got only two or three pages, alas!
His own version of Sharjah ODIs was surprising. He ducked behind Gilly so that we won't be swept by the sandstorm, while the cricketing world depicted him as a crusader standing tall in the storm and winning the match. Sure he was a crusader in Sharjah, but that's really a good one :).
I was able to latch on till the epic innings by VVS and Rahul, but skipped lot of pages and read only those that meant a lot to him.
A Bible for his fans, and a good book on a collector's shelf, and a good first half and final read.

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