Published: Feb 19, 2016, 06:29 PM (IST)
Edited: Feb 19, 2016, 06:44 PM (IST)
Former India batsman Sachin Tendulkar continues to smash records more than two years after retiring from International Test and One-Day International (ODI) cricket. Master Blaster’s autobiography ‘Playing it my Way’, entered the Limca Book of Records for being the best-selling adult hardback across both fiction and non-fiction categories. With immense response towards his autobiography, Tendulkar went on to twitter ti express his gratitude. The book was released on November 6 2014, published by Hachette India and has broken all records for an adult hardback across both fiction and non-fiction categories with 1,50,289 copies confirmed on order subscriptions, as reported on Indiatoday. READ: Sachin Tendulkar enters Limca Book of Records with autobiography ‘Playing It My
The books ordered on day-one already saw it pulling ahead of both ordered before and lifetime sales of the world’s top adult hardbacks Dan Brown’s Inferno, Walter Issacson’s Steve Jobs and JK Rowling’s Casual Vacancy. Tendulkar has been the most talked about cricketer right since 1989 since the match against Pakistan. Over the span of few quarter of century he went on to acquire many firsts in his life being the first batsman to score first to secure 50 Test hundreds, became the first man to score an ODI double hundred and is the only one with 200 Test caps.
Playing It My Way, which is co-authored by Boria Majumdar encapsulates the life of Tendulkar very vividly; some incidents of his life which were hidden from the public and never came on the surface. A thing needs to stressed here is that the record is specifically for adult hard cover books covering both fiction and non-fiction. Earlier in November last year, former Indian captain Kapil Dev had refused to comment on Tendulkar’s claim in ‘Playing It My Way’ that despite being one of the finest Indian all-rounders of all time, the former skipper was disappointing as a coach and said it was Tendulkar’s “personal opinionâ€. Tendulkar had opined that in his autobiography. READ: Eight language launch for Tendulkar autobiography
Overwhelmed with response to Playing it My Way! Thank you for your interest in my cricketing journey. @boriamajumdar pic.twitter.com/YEmBPykdTu
— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) February 19, 2016
Recently, a student of UP Board examinations for high school i.e. 10th grade, as per the system of education in the nation put the image of Tendulkar’s son Arjun in the admit card of one of the candidates who will be appearing for the examination.
