Arjun Tendulkar, enjoying for Goa within the Ranji Trophy 2022-23, lately matched his legendary father Sachin Tendulkar by scoring a century on his first-class debut.
Batting at No.7, the 23-year-old Arjun made 120 from 207 deliveries towards Rajasthan, whereas 34 years in the past, Sachin smashed an unbeaten hundred for Mumbai towards Gujarat on the age of 15.
Arjun, who’s primarily a quick bowler, moved to Goa from Mumbai in the beginning of the season in search of extra alternatives to function within the home circuit.
The left-hander has thus far performed seven Record A video games and 9 T20s however the ongoing contest towards Rajasthan is his first in red-ball cricket. Arjun was Goa’s joint main wicket-taker with eight scalps within the 50-overs Vijay Hazare Trophy this yr.
Whereas everyone seems to be simply hailing the younger all-rounder for his heroics on FC debut, Sachin additionally gave his first response to Arjun’s knock.
Talking at an occasion organized by Infosys, the Grasp Blaster mentioned: “It’s a robust query no person has requested me. As a father, I bear in mind listening to my father inform somebody – this was after I had began enjoying for India, & somebody launched him to ‘Sachin Father kar ke’ and he heard that then my father’s buddy requested him how he feels. He mentioned it’s the proudest second of my life as a result of that is what fathers need to be – to be recognised by what your baby has completed.”
He added: “Arjun has not led a standard childhood. Being a son of a cricketer who’s been round for fairly a while, it’s not really easy. That’s the one purpose, after I retired and I used to be felicitated by the media in Mumbai, my message to them was to permit Arjun to fall in love with cricket, and provides him that chance. You may comply with up with numerous statements after he’s carried out, don’t attempt to put strain on him as a result of I by no means had that strain from my mother and father.
“They gave me the liberty to exit and categorical myself. There was no strain of expectations, solely encouragement, and help, and the way we might exit and higher ourselves. I stored telling him (Arjun), ‘it’s going to be difficult. You’re not going to alter the entire world. We now have to alter the mindset’. It hasn’t been a simple journey for him, it’s been a tricky journey for him. Somebody who can relate to him is probably Rohan Gavaskar.”
Sachin additionally revealed his dialog with Arjun on the finish of Day 1 of the match.
“I did inform him (to go for 100). He was batting on 4 not out, he was despatched as an evening watchman. He requested, ‘what do you assume can be a great whole?’ They have been 210/5 down. I mentioned, ‘at the least 375 is what you could get to’. And he mentioned, ‘are you positive?’ I replied, ‘yeah. you could exit and get 100. Do you imagine you may exit and get a 100?’,” the Mumbaikar signed off.