It has been an incredible journey , a trip that figures alone cannot define. Not that the statistics lack weight. To the contrary they are astonishing, almost mind-boggling. Tendulkar has scored an avalanche of runs, thousands upon thousands of them in every form of the game. He has reached three figures a record number of times in the colours of his country, and all the while has somehow retained his freshness, somehow avoided the mechanical, the repetitive and the predictable...

This book is the fascinating record of the growth of India's greatest batsman; on whose astonishing feats on the cricket field have had innumerable records rewritten, and yet more difficult targets set.

The knowledge of the shaping up of the process of greatness is essential for a true understanding of that greatness. Therefore to understand the dizzying heights of his career, one needs to know the beginning. And "A Salute And Respect To The God Of Cricket" is all about it.