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The part that tends to be skipped  is that most of his achievements  relate to personal records. What about their impact on team results? To refuse to look at that is just not cricket. It is in this context that Sumit Chakraberty’s just released cricket book, Master laster What They Don't Tell You About Sachin Tendulkar breaks  new ground. The author argues about Sachin's personal and team achievements that, any work or business environment  especially in startups  where a lot of what happens is self-driven, there is often a conflict between personal goals and team or job requirements. How to keep your focus on the larger objective and let personal growth follow in its wake is something to be kept in mind always.

Through this book, the author advocates and proving through this findings in his book,  that the statisticians and commentators are not serving the game’s followers well by gushing over personal records and milestones, rather their should be better yardsticks to assess the value of players in a team sport. If commentators focus more on what the team needs, cricketers too will stop attaching so much importance to personal milestones like a 52nd century or a 200th Test. That would be good for cricket and its fans.

Despite the reluctance of most experts and publishers to go against the tide of a pro-Sachin marketing blitz and a humongous hero worshiping cult, this journalist through his book Master Laster thought it important to ask a few pertinent questions. The book is available for sale at infibeam:

http://www.infibeam.com/Books/master-laster-what-they-dont-tell-you-about-sumit-chakraberty/9789381398548.html

 “ODI against Bangladesh, but he slowed down so much as he approached his personal milestone that the team fell short of runs in the end and lost the game. Had he known that would be the outcome, I am sure Sachin would have preferred to remain at a Bradmenesque 99 centuries and win the game instead.”

Infibeam showcases Master Laster: What They Don't Tell You About Sachin Tendulkar. A cricket book breaks new ground by questioning the rhapsodising over an idol and his personal milestones, while making a case for more robust ways to evaluate an individual in a team environment.

http://www.infibeam.com/Books/sachin-tendulkar-showcase.html

About The Authour:

Sumit Chakraberty has worked as a journalist for over 30 years, with stints at Indian Express, The Times of India, BiTV, UTV and most recently, DNA, where he was the Sunday Editor and wrote a weekly cricket column aimed straight at the head, called Beamer. He has followed the game closely for five decades, from watching the Nawab of Pataudi execute an elegant sweep on his school cricket ground in Hyderabad to analyzing the game from the press box at Wankhede for his newspaper.

About Sachin Tendulkar 

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of his generation. He took up cricket at age of eleven, made his Test debut against Pakistan at just sixteen years old, and went on to represent Mumbai domestically and India internationally for more than twenty years. He retired from the Indian Priemer League in May 2013 and has announced that he will retire from the sport in November 2013 after playing his two-hundredth Test match, against the West Indies  in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium.He is the first player to score one hundred international centuries, the first player to score a double century in a One Day International,and thus far the only to complete 34,000 runs in international cricket.