Sachin Tendulkar's autobiography titled "Playing It My Way" was published on November 5, 2014 in English. The 486-page book published by Hodder & Stoughton and Hachette India was co-authored by Tendulkar and Boria Majumdar. It details Tendulkar's career as one of cricket's most decorated players, holding many batting records. The book recounts conversations with his coach Greg Chappell regarding taking over as captain from Rahul Dravid in 2007. It also discusses controversies like the Monkeygate scandal and Tendulkar's feelings of humiliation over being removed as captain without notice. Tendulkar responds to criticism of whether he was still good enough to

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3. Sachin Tendulkar to launch his autobiography "Playing It My Way"
on November 5 2014.

4. INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK
Author Sachin Tendulkar, Boria Majumdar
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Country India
Language English
Subject Autobiography
Genre Autobiography
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton(worldwide)
Hachette India (In the subcontinent)
Publication date 5 November 2014
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 486
ISBN 978-14-736-0520-6

5. The name of Tendulkar's autobiography will be called
“Playing It My Way”. The 41-year-old had indicated
he would be coming out with his autobiography while
speaking to members of the media during his post-
retirement press conference.
India's most decorated cricketer retired from Test
cricket on November 17 last year after a two-Test
series against the West Indies. Tendulkar's last Test,
which also happened to be his 200th Test was played
at the Wankhede Stadium in front of his home crowd
.The former Mumbai Indians skipper retired from the
IPL after his franchise won the Champions League
T20 in 2013. ODI cricket was the first format
Tendulkar withdrew from after playing his last match
against Pakistan in 2012.
At the time of retirement from all formats of the
game, Sachin Tendulkar holds multiple batting
records including that of scoring 100 international
hundreds.
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6. Sachin Tendulkar has mentioned an
incident where he recounted a
conversation with Greg Chappell, then
coach of Indian Cricket Team, just before
the 2007 World Cup in
which Chappell suggested
that Sachin should take over the
captaincy from Rahul Dravid, then
Captain of Indian Cricket
Team. Tendulkar writes
that Chappell made the suggestion in
presence of his wife Anjali Tendulkar, a
charge denied by Chappell.
CONTROVERSIES

7. BOOK CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
"No one from the BCCI managed to call me or inform me of my removal as captain before
someone from the media called to say I was no longer captain. I felt extremely humiliated to hear
this.“

8. "I want to state very clearly that the (Monkey Gate) incident arose because Andrew Symonds had
been continually trying to provoke Bhajji (Harbhajan Singh) and it was inevitable that the two
would have an altercation at some point."

9. "Kapil Dev's method (as India coach) of involvement and his thought process was limited to
leaving the running of the team to the captain, and hence he did not involve himself in strategic
discussions that would help us on the field."

10. "I hated losing and as captain of the team I felt responsible for the string of miserable
performances. More worryingly, I did not know how I could turn it around, as I was already
trying my absolute best."

11. "Mind you, there is little doubt in my mind that we would have drawn (Sydney Test of 2008) had
it not been for what seemed to us to be mistakes by the umpires and some rather unsportsmanlike
conduct by a few of the Australian players."

12. The best of the best: Ian Chappell in 2007, had written in a column that Tendulkar should
look at the mirror and ask himself if he was good enough to continue playing cricket.
Tendulkar responds: "I showed him the size of the mirror in 2008 when we toured
Australia (Sachin was man of the series in the VB Series) He should have realized that
the man he is asking to stand in front of the mirror has played more cricket than him"