Sachin Tendulkar’s Playing It My Way: A Study of Sports Autobiographies and National Pride

The "gentleman's game"cricket has long since retained a specialised niche in English literature which can be accounted to the unique culture of the sport which emphasizes on ideals like grace, sportsmanship, character and complexity.Making use of these ideals Cricket has persistently made inroads into various forms of literature ranging from Victorian Literature to the recent cricket fictions from Australia and New Zealand.While today"s reading fraternity may be enjoying the recent releases of Cric fictions Jock Serong's The Rules of Backyard Cricket (2016) or W. J.