Arjun Tendulkar will forever remember the match against SunRisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 on Tuesday because that was the game in which the 23-year-old Mumbai Indians pacer claimed his first wicket in the premier T20 league.
Arjun Tendulkar will forever remember the match against SunRisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 on Tuesday. Because that was the game in which the 23-year-old Mumbai Indians pacer claimed his first wicket in the premier T20 league.
In the final over of SRH’s 193-run chase against MI, Arjun Tendulkar took the wicket of Bhuvneshwar Kumar while his father Sachin Tendulkar was watching from the MI dressing room.
Arjun was given the last over with SRH needing 20. In the end, MI won the match by 14 runs. Arjun discussed Sachin’s advice after getting his first wicket.
“Obviously it was great getting my first IPL wicket. I just had to focus on what was in hand, the plan, and executing it. Our plan was just to bowl wide and get the long boundary into play, make the batsman hit it to the longer side,”
he said.
“I love bowling; I am happy to bowl anytime the captain asks me to and just stick to the team plan and give my best. We (Sachin Tendulkar and him) talk about cricket, we discuss tactics before the game and he tells me to back what I practice every game. I just focused on my release, bowling good lengths and lines up front. If it swings, it’s a bonus, if it doesn’t, so be it.”
Talking about the game, Arjun Tendulkar bowled a magnificent 20th over under severe pressure as Mumbai Indians defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 14 runs for their third straight victory on Tuesday.
Cameron Green displayed his brute power on the way to his first IPL fifty. After being put to bat, Green (64 not out off of 40) and Tilak Varma (37 off of 17) led Mumbai Indians to a challenging 192 for five.
It was difficult to hit boundaries early on since the odd ball didn’t come on to the bat, but Sunrisers recovered from an ordinary power play to take the game deep with the help of opener Mayank Agarwal (48 off 41) and Heinrich Klaasen (36 off 16).
In the end, they fell short and were all out for 178 in 19.5 overs for their third defeat in five games.
While Agarwal scored some much-needed runs, Mumbai was placed under pressure by Klaasen’s knock. The South African took the attack to veteran leggie Piyush Chawla, reverse sweeping him for a four and six in a 21-run over.
Marco Jansen (13 off 6) and Washington Sundar (10 off 6) made the game interesting with a string of boundaries before the latter paid the price for casual running between the wickets. Sunrisers required 60 from the final 30 balls.
Tendulkar, who was playing in his second IPL match, bowled two overs with the new ball before returning to bowl the high-pressure final over with the Sunrisers needing 20 runs.
Tendulkar decided to bowl full and wide and was successful in helping his side. He got his maiden IPL wicket in the process.