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Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar-Bpb Paperback – 13 November 2014

by Dilip D'souza (Author)
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The deafening noise in the Wankhede turns to silence so complete that you'd swear you can hear Tendulkar's footsteps as he begins the walk back to the pavilion. It's the end of an era, they said. No more switching off televisions when he got out, no more resounding chants of 'Sa-chi-i-i-n, Sa-chin!' In November 2013, Sachin Tendulkar played his final Test.

Dilip D'Souza builds on close and detailed observation of those two and a half days, capturing all the hysteria it spawned, the love and adulation that showered from the rafters at the Wankhede, the choking emotion and yes, there was a match on too, against the West Indies. Final Test discusses cricket from the old to the new, as Sachin takes to the pitch one final time.

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  • 'A compelling and different, read of a Test match that stopped the nation.' Rahul Dravid
  • Foreword by Harsha Bhogle
  • 'Through a close scrutiny of Tendulkar's last Test - of the cricket but also of the swell and fall of emotions around him - D'Souza teases out the larger issues that plague the game, in India as well as overseas. His refreshing honesty and outspokenness puncture the bubble that has often enveloped both Tendulkar and cricket in this country.' - Samanth Subramanian
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    254 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    Random House
  4. Publication date
    13 November 2014
  5. Dimensions
    20 x 14 x 4 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    9788184006360
  7. ISBN-13
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About the Author

Dilip D'Souza trained as a computer scientist (BITS Pilani, Brown University) and spent many years in software. Somewhere along the way he tried his hand at writing and found that more interesting. He's been a full-time writer for 15 years now. He's won several fellowships and awards for his writing (Outlook/Picador prize, Newsweek/Daily Beast prize, Wolfson College Press Fellowship and more). He has written for publications like Caravan, Hindustan Times, Mint, Outlook, the Hindu, Washington Post, NYT, Die Zeit, Salon, Newsweek, Daily Beast, among others. He writes a well-regarded mathematics column, A Matter of Numbers, for Mint.

Dilip's interests are reading, music, playing tennis and travel. He has travelled to some 25 countries, backpacking, driving, taking buses and trains. Born in Madras, he grew up in Bombay, lived in Delhi, Pilani and then in the US for ten years, he has been back in Bombay for 22+ years now. His wife Vibha Kamat teaches French, they have two children, Sahir (15) and Surabhi (10). They have two cats, Aziz and Cleo. They rule. Final Test is Dilip's fifth book.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 8184006365
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House (13 November 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 254 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9788184006360
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8184006360
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 260 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
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prasanth reddy
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Chirag Vaishnav
4.0 out of 5 stars Nostalgic
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It's a good book to get nostalgic however I expected more stories from the stand rather than explanation about what's happening on field or author's views about functioning of ICC, BCCI or WICB.
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Sathyakumar UR
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I love sachin... sachin always best
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JACK
5.0 out of 5 stars Dilip D'Souza's book on Sachin Tendulkar's final Test match is an erudite writer's assessment of a mad moment in Indian cricket'
Reviewed in India on 12 December 2014
Historic cricket occasions have various forms of recall. I remember our school arranging for us a grainy, black-and-white film of the famous 1960 Tied Test between Australia and West Indies in Brisbane and for days afterwards, we pitching ourselves as Gary Sobers and Alan Davidson on the sports field. And while I heard the commentary of Kapil Dev’s momentous innings of 175 against Zimbabwe in the World Cup of 1983, neither I nor anyone not present at Tunbridge Wells that day ever got to see the match because it was never filmed. Then we come to Sachin Tendulkar’s last-ever Test match in Mumbai. We saw it live in high-definition on television and as repeats on national networks, and now YouTube has scraps of the event however you like it — highlights of his innings, the walk to the pitch, the tears, the farewell speech. And for sure, every April 24 for years to come, we will see birthday telecasts showing Tendulkar scoring his centuries and speaking in his squeaky voice. Then amid all this, we also have an anachronistic offering from a journalist-writer who dabbles not with sports but with politics and society. Dilip D’Souza’s Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar is an account of the batsman’s final Test at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium.

A book on a Test match in the era of video? It actually had its birth in an article for a magazine that D’Souza was asked to write. He says this was just the sort of a cricket assignment he would have craved, writing about “not the game, but the event”. Intentionally, therefore, the book becomes an erudite writer’s assessment of a mad moment in cricket’s history, written with the help of copious notes taken in a frenzied stadium. And just in case, you think this is one more in the nauseatingly unending paeans to cricket’s God, let me quote a passage early in the book that distinctly sighs with gentle hopelessness: “Has any team sport seen a farewell to a star quite like this? … I mean, it’s hard to imagine that Michael Jordan would suggest to the National Basketball Association that he’d like to play the last game of his career at home, much less that the league would not just agree but actually arrange an out-of-turn game for him against an outclassed team and then consider it a normal NBA game.”

The book draws you into the Test, so much so that you are impatient when D’Souza writes, as he has to, about the West Indies batting and the Indian batsmen preceding Tendulkar. You want to skip the pages and get to the maestro’s innings but you halt, for between the overs, so to say, the writer brings thoughts and insight, sometimes profound, sometimes frivolous about the culture of cricket in India. He bemusedly wonders, for instance, why when the Wankhede tiers are named for great cricketers, the press box bears the name of Bal Thackeray, the man who thwarted a number of Test matches in the city. These digressions are, of course, triggered by happenings on the field. And he imparts an impish humour to it all. Having earlier talked about the distasteful repercussions on world cricket of India’s money muscle, we come to these three lines describing a moment when the West Indies lose a wicket: “It was 162/5 a few minutes ago, it is now 162/8. The crowd that has been chanting Tendulkar’s name almost all the day switches now to ‘India-a-a, India!’ The big screen says just this: ‘Emami Fair and Handsome’.”

D’Souza sits in the stadium and observes everything, on field and off it. He even watches an Ambani scion ferrying his mother from the stadium in an Aston Martin (the car became part of Pedder Road’s history a month later), and a blue Volkswagen Jetta stopping to pick up an elderly lady in a shawl and then disgorge its passenger at her home an hour later: Tendulkar’s mother. He writes, often in a tone of slight disapproval, of the frenzy around an individual at the cost of the team, of how when Murali Vijay is given out, there is such whole-hearted acclamation that the batsman thinks the umpire has noticed a no-ball only to find Tendulkar coming in. Indeed, so Tendulkar-centric is the action that D’Souza quotes another journalist as writing that Cheteshwar Pujara (batting with Tendulkar) “could have streaked but no one would have noticed”.

After Tendulkar is dismissed, you have the urge to close the book. But the story refuses to let you go. Pujara and Rohit Sharma score centuries when the whole of India wants India to collapse so He (denoted with a capital H by the author with characteristic wit) can bat a second time. But you also read on not because of the cricket, but because D’Souza keeps ambling into topics like the scoring rate (the Brisbane Test would not have been tied if the West Indies hadn’t batted as fast as they did in the first innings), on what the stars eat at lunch, on the differences between baseball and cricket...

Amid all this, how Tendulkar scored 74 in his last ever innings is almost a sideshow. Which is as it should be, for it wouldn’t do to dwell too much on the cricket when the book is about the event, would it?
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Pratyush Garg
1.0 out of 5 stars Too much of crap around it
Reviewed in India on 24 February 2015
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It is not about Sachin. Too much of crap around it.
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Akshay
3.0 out of 5 stars Just a bit disappointed as I was expecting a thorough coverage of the ...
Reviewed in India on 18 February 2016
Just a bit disappointed as I was expecting a thorough coverage of the match but instead the author dwells on retelling statistical analysis of cricketing history related to Sachin which perhaps everyone is already aware of. Nothing new or insightful.
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Vikas
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Reviewed in the United States on 22 November 2014
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Harsha Boppana
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Reviewed in the United States on 24 December 2014
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Not as insightful as promised.
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