Sachin : The Genius Unplugged (Paperback) Overview
some of the finest writers on cricket, the attempt is not so much to pin Sachin down as to let him roam free beyond statistics, above nationality, and above the need to explain. From the sublime to the ridiculous it is all here. As Peter Roebuck once said Whenever I feel low I only need to remind myself how privileged I am to be writing on the game in the Tendulkar.
About the Author
Suresh Menon, one of the youngest newspaper editors in India, is widely regarded as the most literary of India's cricket writers. A Bangalore University topper in economics and political science, Menon began his career with Deccan Herald before moving to Indian Express, Chennai for whom he reported cricket series in Pakistan and New Zealand in the 1980s, and wrote the first of many weekly columns. In 2000, responding to a call from the New Indian Express in Chennai he took over as Editor, and launched the New Sunday Express. He quit in 2002, to honour book writing commitments, but the temptation of daily journalism proved too strong. He launched a newspaper in Bangalore which became the state's highest-selling, and was bought over by the Times of India group.
Book Plot
The book, edited by eminent cricket journalist Suresh Menon, comprises 18 essays by writers who have watched Tendulkar's career, and, in the cases of Manjrekar, Anil Kumble and Rahul Dravid, been a part of it. Seventeen of the 18 essays are freshly commissioned - "I was the only lazy one," says Menon with a chuckle. Yet, as the editor of the book, his contribution is to have taken it from conception to paperback in just over seven months. Fittingly, it includes a foreword by the man who is to bowling what Tendulkar is to batting - Muttiah Muralitharan.It was also fitting that Dravid launched the book, and Kumble received the first copy: Kumble and Tendulkar held the record for the most Tests played by two cricketers together (122), until the Dravid-Tendulkar combine (currently 135) broke it. Kumble marveled at Tendulkar's ability to master every aspect of the game he set his mind to. "Sachin just rolled his arm over, and turned the legspinner and the googly by the same huge width, while I was struggling to spin the ball," he said. Menon recalled Kumble once saying that if Tendulkar took to legspin, he himself might have never played for India.
Kumble also remembered his debut at Old Trafford in 1990, in which Tendulkar scored his first international century. "Kiran More had ordered me to keep standing on the balcony, since Tendulkar was batting well when I was there," Kumble said. "I was allowed to sit down only after he reached his hundred, and the match was saved".Both Kumble and Dravid also spoke of Menon's contribution to cricket writing. Dravid recounted how he used to preserve, and be inspired, by Menon's newspaper articles on him when he was a schoolboy cricketer. He believed this book would stand out from the crowd thanks to the sheer quality of contributors, including Peter Roebuck, Greg Baum, Harsha Bhogle and Barney Ronay. "The book is a great reflection on Tendulkar's accomplishments, and is something youngsters taking to cricket will enjoy reading," he said. "Chronicling good writing is not something we do very well in India, and this book is a very good start
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