"[3] Elizabeth Kuruvilla of Mint wrote: "Adiga’s novel oscillates between lyrically exposing what the brutal system in the business of creating sporting heroes does to the minds, and lives, of vulnerable youth and an amateurish filling in of gaps with monologue and characters that are inadequately fleshed out.

He further wrote: "Adiga’s prose has a bustling energy that makes it highly readable but also reduces characters to certain cartoonish traits, such as the slanted furrow in Manju’s forehead that appears whenever he thinks deeply, or the “rakishly” raised right eyebrow that signals his father's outbreaks of anger.

"[6] Michael Upchurch of Chicago Tribune gave a positive response and wrote: "Selection Day brings a family, a city and an entire country to scabrous and antic life.

[11] Ron Charles of The Washington Post wrote that "[..] Adiga’s voice is so exuberant, his plotting so jaunty, that the sadness of this story feels as though it is accumulating just outside our peripheral vision.

[15] Starring Mohammad Samad, Yash Dholye, Karanvir Malhotra, Rajesh Tailang, Mahesh Manjrekar, Ratna Pathak Shah, Shiv Panditt, Parul Gulati and Akshay Oberoi, the series premiered on 28 December 2018.