The Rise of the Hitman
Name : The Rise of the Hitman
Author : R.Kaushik
Year of Publication : 2025
Genre : Non - Fiction, Cricket, Biography
Rating : ** ( Two stars out of 5)
R.Kaushik is a competent writer who has previously co-written memoirs of V.V.S.Laxman and Gundappa Viswanath. Rohit Sharma's successes are covered well but the more important bits of how he coped with failure and depression when he was dropped from the 2011 World Cup squad are not given adequate printspace. The book would have been better had it been a contemporary history of Indian cricket post-Dhoni giving equal space to Kohli, Sharma and others. Rohit's successes alone do not have enough variety to warrant a longform biography.
R.Kaushik is a competent writer who has previously co-written memoirs of V.V.S.Laxman and Gundappa Viswanath. Rohit Sharma's successes are covered well but the more important bits of how he coped with failure and depression when he was dropped from the 2011 World Cup squad are not given adequate printspace. The book would have been better had it been a contemporary history of Indian cricket post-Dhoni giving equal space to Kohli, Sharma and others. Rohit's successes alone do not have enough variety to warrant a longform biography.
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