Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 at 12:07 pm , filed under News by Jal Hayden
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Star Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar’s son Arjun Tendulkar surpassed in a school-level cricket match in Mumbai on Monday, October 18th at Sassanian Cricket Club.
Sachin Tendulkar might miss the battle ground in ongoing ODI series against England, but his son Arjun undoubtedly has stolen the attention in a school-level cricket match. He scored an unbeaten 45 runs and also took 4/15 wickets to direct his team to fabulous victory by 23 runs in a T20 match.
Junior Tendulkar shows hints of his father’s style in a school cricket match. The 12-year-old plays a leg side shots, the same venue at Azad Maidan, Mumbai – where his dad Sachin put on 664 runs with Vinod Kambli in a 1988 Harris Shield match. Here, Sachin Tendulkar son represents Dhirubhai Ambani International School during a District Sports Office U-14 inter-school T20 draw over SCNS.
The U-14 coach Hari Om told that “Arjun Tendulkar was a chip off the old block. He is a promising batsman and is doing very well in other areas as well. I see a promising all-rounder in him in future.”
While at the tender age of 13, Sachin captained his school team to victory in the Giles Shield. He scored 3 centuries 158*, 156 and 197 and then in the Harris Shield scored 123, 150 and 276. He scored 9 hundreds, including 2 double hundreds, a total of 2336 runs.
Arjun Tendulkar first made headlines in January 2011, when he made his cricketing appearance at the U-13 level. He played in the Cadency Trophy from MIGC club in Pune.
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