Arjun Tendulkar, son of former Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar, has finally managed to make a big mark in the IPL.
Arjun played an important role in winning the 5-time champion team Mumbai Indians in a match of the 16th season of T20 League. Left-arm fast bowler Arjun bowled very tightly against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 20th over of the match. During this, he also took his first wicket of the Indian Premier League career.
The 5-time champion team Mumbai Indians, led by Team India captain Rohit Sharma, registered consecutive wins in IPL 2023 on Tuesday night. The team defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 14 runs in their 5th match. In the 20th over of the match, left-arm fast bowler Arjun Tendulkar played an important role in winning the team by bowling well.
In the match, Mumbai scored 192 runs for 5 wickets while playing first. In response, the Hyderabad team got reduced to 178 runs. Although MI did not have a good start in the T20 tournament as They had lost in both the opening matches.
First wicket of Arjun’s IPL career.
Talking about the 20th over of the innings, Arjun Tendulkar, son of former Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar, was bowling this over. Sunrisers Hyderabad had to score 20 runs in 6 balls to win while Mumbai Indians needed 2 wickets. Abdul Samad could not score runs on the first ball. He was run out on the second ball. The next ball went wide. Mayank Markandey took 2 on the third ball and he took one run on the fourth ball. On the 5th ball, Bhuvneshwar Kumar was caught by Rohit Sharma at extra cover while trying to play a big shot. This is the first wicket of Arjun’s IPL career.
Arjun Tendulkar, 23, took one wicket for 18 runs in 2.5 overs in the match. Earlier, he had bowled the first and third over of the innings with the new ball as well.
Earlier on April 16, Arjun made his IPL debut against Kolkata Knight Riders. Then he gave 17 runs in 2 overs. However, he has not yet got a chance to bat in both the matches. Arjun Tendulkar has gone ahead of his father Sachin Tendulkar in taking wickets in IPL. Sachin landed in 6 consecutive seasons from 2008 to 2013, but he could not take a single wicket in IPL.
A superb all-round performance by Mumbai Indians once again. Cameron Green impressed with both bat & ball. Ishan & Tilak’s batting is as good as it gets! The IPL is getting more interesting every day. Great going boys!💙
And finally a Tendulkar has an IPL wicket!😛#SRHvMI pic.twitter.com/e4MAFEZyjY
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) April 18, 2023
After the victory, former captain of Mumbai Indians Sachin Tendulkar has written a special thing about son Arjun Tendulkar on social media. He wrote that Mumbai Indians once again performed well. Cameron Green impressed with both the ball and the bat. Ishaan Kishan and Tilak Verma also batted well. IPL is getting more exciting every day. And finally Tendulkar finally got an IPL wicket.
With the win, the team of Mumbai Indians has come at number six in the points table. The team has 6 points in 5 matches. On the other hand, the team of Sunrisers Hyderabad lost the third match in 5 matches. They have 4 points in 5 matches, Hyderabad’s team is at number 9 in the table. At the same time, the team of Rajasthan Royals remains on top with 8 points. They have won 4 out of 5 matches played so far.
