Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar’s son Arjun Tendulkar lastly made his much-awaited Indian Premier League (IPL) debut within the final match of Mumbai Indians in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders final weekend. Left-arm tempo bowling all-rounder Arjun needed to wait until his second match – in actual fact final over of that match – to choose up his maiden wicket in IPL 2023.
Arjun, who was given the duty to defend 20 runs in ultimate over of the IPL 2023 match in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad within the IPL 2023 match, bowled brilliantly and managed to dismiss Bhuvneshwar Kumar for two to complete off the sport and guarantee a 14-run win for five-time IPL champions MI. The MI left-arm pacer bowled a supply which went throughout SRH pacer Bhuvneshwar who had a swipe at it solely to spoon it as much as MI skipper Rohit Sharma to the delight of Arjun Tendulkar and your complete MI workforce.
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A particular second for younger Arjun Tendulkar, who will get his first wicket in #TATAIPL and it’s his captain Rohit Sharma, who takes the catch of Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
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Arjun Tendulkar later revealed that his plan was to bowl broad to the SRH batters within the ultimate over, in order that they tried to hit in direction of the longer boundary. “My plan was to just bowl wide and get the batsmen hitting into the longer side. I was itching to bowl, yes. I love bowling and happy to bowl any time. We (father Sachin Tendulkar and him) talk a lot about cricket. We talk tactics and plans. I just focused on my release and the lengths I want to bowl. If it swings, it is a bonus; if it doesn’t, so be it,” Arjun Tendulkar mentioned in post-match presentation.
Cameron Green’s fifty adopted by Jason Behrendorff, Riley Meredith and Piyush Chawla’s sensible spells helped Mumbai Indians (MI) clinch a 14-run win as they bundled out Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) for 178 of their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 match on the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Tuesday. For MI, Behrendorff, Meredith and Chawla bagged two wickets every whereas Arjun Tendulkar bagged his maiden IPL wicket.
Mayank Agarwal top-scored for SRH with 48 of 41 whereas Heinrich Klaasen performed a quickfire knock of 36 in 16 balls. Arjun sealed the win along with his first IPL wicket, making it three wins in a row for Mumbai Indians.
(with ANI inputs)
