Sachin Tendulkar’s autobiography: Top 5 things to watch out for

#4 Monkey-gate

Harbhajan Singh was banned for three matches for calling Symonds a ‘monkey’ during the infamous Sydney test. Though Tendulkar, who was batting alongside Harbhajan when the incident happened, was quiet when the match referee initially suspended Harbhajan, he vouched for the turbanator during the appeal hearing.

The appointed justice John Hansen said “Sachin did not hear the word ‘monkey’ or ‘big monkey’, but he did say he heard Mr Singh use a term in his native tongue ‘teri maki’ which appears to be pronounced with an ‘n’.”

Australians were furious as Harbhajan was acquitted of racial abuse and criticized Tendulkar for his “change of story ”. In their respective autobiographies, Gilchrist called it “a joke” and Ponting called it “absurd”. Though Tendulkar refused to react to any of this, it will be interesting to see what he has to say in his book