[3][4][5] The book summarises Tendulkar's early days, his 24 years of international career and aspects of his life that have not been shared publicly.

[6] It entered the Limca Book of Records for being the best selling adult hardback across both fiction and non-fiction categories.

[7] In India, it broke the record set by Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs for being the most pre-ordered biographical book, amassing the record by 20,000 orders.

[8] In the book, Tendulkar mentioned that just months before the 2007 Cricket World Cup, Greg Chappell, who was at this time the coach of the Indian cricket team, visited Tendulkar at his home and suggested that he should take over the captaincy from Rahul Dravid, then the team captain.

[9] Chappell however denied this, stating that he never contemplated Tendulkar replacing Dravid as captain.