A ready reckoner for Tendulkarphiles on the life and times of the master batsman…Sachin: The Story of the World's Greatest Batsman, the first, serious exhaustive biography of the Tendulkar career so far, brings back, like a warm autumn breeze does, the memory of the wunderkind's early exhilarating summers in international cricket… The book is akin to a documentary in prose… the book's big virtue is that it is laboriously researched and cross-referenced. For any quizzer on Mastermind India opting for "The Life and Times of Sachin Tendulkar" as their specialist subject there's good news. You just got yourself the ready reckoner that covers 1973-2002. The book is also, at another level, a necessary chronicle of the nasty 1990s when some very strange things happened in Indian cricket and some very curious characters inhabited the Indian dressing room. —Sharda Ugra, India Today