Set to be one of the hugest sports books of the year is Playing It My Way, the auto-biography of the man Brian Lara calls “the greatest cricketer of all time”.

Tendulkar has achieved that rare level of sportsmanship in which he has become both an international star and a hero in his native India. He has been awarded the highest of accolades at home and triumphed to an unprecedented degree at the crease.

One of the most gifted and entertaining batsmen to have played international cricket, he scored more runs and made more centuries than any other player in history – in both Tests and ODIs. He made his first Test century at the age of 17, at the age of 36 he became the first player to make a one-day double century and in 2012 he scored his 100th international hundred. With India he won the World Cup in 2011 and reached the top of the world Test rankings in the same year. In 2013, he retired from cricket after playing his 200th and final Test in front of his home crowd in Mumbai.

"I knew that agreeing to write my story would need me to be completely honest, as that’s the way I have always played the game. It would require talking about a number of aspects I have not shared in public before.

So here I am, at the end of my final innings, having taken that last walk back to the pavilion, ready to recount as many incidents as I can remember since first picking up a cricket bat as a child in Mumbai thirty-five years ago." – Sachin Tendulkar

You can pre-order your copy of Playing It My Way now!