Gautam Bhattacharya is a prolific, prize-winning cricket writer, who has been covering the game for nearly three decades. He has covered eight World Cups, 90 Test matches and more than 300 One-dayers. He has successfully straddled cricket reporting, newspaper editing, anchoring TV shows and authoring books. With 20 books to his credit in Bengali, this is his first book in English. By some strange connection of fate, seven days separated him and his subject in their first real encounter with international cricket. Gautam covered his maiden international match at Jamshedpur on 7 December 1983. Exactly a week before that, Sachin Tendulkar, just stepping into his teens, sat at the Wankhede stands to watch the same teams – India and the West Indies. He first interviewed Sachin way back in 1988, when the gawky teenager had just got into the Mumbai team. Since then he has covered Tendulkar almost non-stop for the last 23 years. Gautam is the Sports and Entertainment Editor of India’s frontline language newspaper Ananda Bazar Patrika. He lives in Kolkata with his wife and only daughter.SACH – SACH – a nick name, yet the complete truth! Sach is not a mid-summer night’s dream or a fairy tale. Sachin Tendulkar is a flesh and blood icon whose trail-blazing footsteps have accorded him the highest stature worldwide. This book is the journey of a man who dreamed big, stretched his arms towards the sky and reached the summit. A record 83 individuals, all path-breakers in their own right, speak out on what Sachin means to them. If Asha Bhosle calls him ‘God’s apna aadmi’, and Kapil Dev wants him ‘to stand as tall as Mahatma Gandhi’, Viv Richards gives him ‘10 upon 10’. Taking the reader through Sachin’s journey of life, the author steps boldly on what has been ‘forbidden’ ground till now – the controversy surrounding the erstwhile Indian coach – Greg Chappell, who breaks his silence on Sachin after four long years. The high-point of this must-have book is a set of 40 never-before-asked questions put to Sachin by the author. And Sachin does not shy away from the controversial ones. Bhattacharya shares with us the cricketer’s values, his appealing humility, non-star like image, his persona as a son, husband and a father. Introduced through eye-catching and popular phraseology, the chapters in the book capture the soul of the man fondly referred to as the ‘God of Cricket’! Idolized by the young, revered by his colleagues, blessed by the old guard – Sachin Tendulkar who created history at the age of 16, today continues to rewrite it, as the unified voice of the country salutes him. SACH is a book about Sachin Tendulkar, a man who dreamed big, stretched his arms towards the sky and reached the summit. He is applauded the world over for his cricketing feats and the person he is. This book, however, is not just another tome on Sachin.
ISBN: 9788125945659
Author: Gautam Bhattacharya
Published by: Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd
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