The feeling of reading this one was spectacular. It felt like I was going through a journey with Sachin and now, when finished with this book, its feeling sad.
The first chapter started with the words from Sachin's father “Son, Life is like a book. It has numerous chapters. It also has many lessons in it”. And, Now, This Son has closed a chapter of 24 years journey with Indian Cricket on 16 November 2013 with legendary performance of 100 International Centuries.
Born to a Maharashtrian family in Mumbai, Sachin was a child with two brothers and one sister. Like an ordinary child, grew up with friends playing, doing mischief of pouring water on passerby, steeling mangoes and many. But playing all day under sun or running around blocks when no friends found out, few can show this level of endurance in childhood. He also demanded bicycle from father and stopped playing for a week and then made a serious accident within hours of getting the new bicycle.
The turn to cricket can be traced from his admission in Ramakant Achekar’s summer cricket camp in 1984 at the age of eleven. Its where the cooking began with extreme hard work; practicing in morning, then going home for lunch, and again practicing in the afternoon. As he had only one set of cricket clothes, he would wash and dry out that cloth during the lunch time.
The first earning from cricket came when Achekar Sir kept one rupee coin on top of a stamp and Sachin had to manage saving the wickets with sixty to seventy boys fielding for 15 minutes. If he could, he won the coin.
Sachin’s First International Match for India was test against Pakistan started on 15 November 1989 and the rest of his journey is a part of the history. He made his first ODI hundred at Old Trafford in England.
In this book, he told about his feelings of success, failure, disappointments, frustration on his way of 200 test matches with 15,921 runs and 463 One Day matches with 18,425 runs. He wrote about how he managed himself to push and come back when fall into injuries multiple times, how he persisted when the days were not going right and about the “Endulkar”. He also inscribed the story of meeting true love and best partner of his life, Anjali.
The last part of the book goes like this, “As I start my second innings, I will do exactly what I did when I was eleven, live and enjoy each moment. I don’t know where my life is heading, nor do I want to predict anything. I will just take things as they come, as I did when I played my first innings.” Amazing view of life!!!
We all know about today’s Sachin but few heard about this Mumbai Boy’s journey to become the Sachin. I would highly recommend this book to know about the making of this legend. You can buy this book from Amazon.
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