‘Playing it My Way’: Everything you need to know about Sachin Tendulkar’s autobiography

Who is saying what, the official book launch, author, price and all you want to know about the book.

While we are a couple of days away from the launch of the much awaited autobiography of Sachin Tendulkar, the release of some excerpts from the book title ‘Playing it My Way’ has only made the wait a never ending one.

There were always rumours in the media that the little master would pen his thoughts post retirement, but the official word came on the 2nd of September, 2014.

The build-up

When Tendulkar wanted to quit cricket: Not long after the series (West Indies) was over, I (Sachin) confided in Anjali that I feared there was nothing more that I could do to stem the tide of defeats. Losing a string of very close matches had left me badly scarred. I had given it everything and was not sure that I could give even 0.1 per cent more. Read the full text here

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Tendulkar, Chappell and captaincy: Just months before the World Cup, Chappell had come to see me at home and, to my dismay, suggested that I should take over the captaincy from Rahul Dravid. Anjali, who was sitting with me, was equally shocked to hear him say that ‘together, we could control Indian cricket for years,’ and that he would help me in taking over the reins of the side. More here

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Dravid is not interested: Dravid said he was never “privy to any private conversation between two individuals” about Sachin Tendulkar’s revelation in his upcoming autobiography about Greg Chappell wanting to remove the Karnataka stalwart from captaincy before 2007 World Cup.

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Ganguly backs Sachin’s claims: Sourav Ganguly disclosed that Rahul Dravid was aware of what Greg Chappell was up to during his stint as India coach but he “could not control” the Australian. Want to know more? Find out here…

Author: Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Majumdar

Pages: 496

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