Book Launch - If Cricket is a Religion, Sachin is God April 28, 2009

Book launch and discussion on 'If Cricket is a Religion, Sachin is God' by Vijay Santhanam and Shyam Balasubramaniam. Eminent TV anchor Anand Narasimhan will host the event. With over 28,000 international runs and 80 centuries, Sachin Tendulkar, the highest run-getter in both Tests and ODIs, is the God of the religion called cricket. His exploits on the field have brought hope and joy to millions of fans. And yet, like God, he has his set of detractors always willing to remove him from the pedestal. In this book, the authors, who consider themselves fans and analysts in equal measure, follow the career of the cricketing demigod-his advent, his peak, his fall and his resurrection. Armed with irrefutable statistical data, which they contextualize and analyse with rigour, the authors seek to end all debate on Tendulkar's status as the greatest cricketer of the modern era. They compare him with his peers in both forms of the game, and provide the viewpoint of experts, players and commentators, so that the reader can independently draw conclusions. And if you still don't believe that Sachin is God's gift to the world of cricket, well, God help you! About the author : Vijay Santhanam - Graduated from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and has completed twenty years of a successful career in international business in India, China and the Asia Pacific region. He lives in Singapore. Shyam Balasubramanian - Studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has worked for seventeen years in different parts of the world, including India, Asia-Pacific and Europe. He lives in London.

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