Arjun Tendulkar: The 18-Year-Old Boy Who Is More Than Sachin's Son

Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar’s son Arjun recently made the news when he decided to give the T20 Mumbai League a miss. We take a look at the young Mumbai lad who tries hard to live outside his father’s shadow.

Arjun Tendulkar With Family

One of city’s emerging stars Arjun Tendulkar will not be part of the upcoming inaugural edition of the Mumbai T20 League. A budding left-arm pacer, junior Tendulkar is working on his remodelled action and is still not ready to play competitive cricket, as reported.

Tendulkar’s absence may come as a jolt to franchises, who were expected to make a beeline for the upcoming youngster at the auction, scheduled to take place at a Bandra hotel on Saturday. The league will be played in city’s Wankhede Stadium between 11-21 March. The 18-year-old has been in good form of late, snaring two five-wicket hauls and a four-for in the 2017-18 U-19 Cooch Behar Trophy.

Tendulkar’s bowling action is being monitored by his coach Atul Gaikwad, who is a Pune based-coach-cum-bio-mechanist.

“His body has grown very quickly in the last couple of years – you can see the difference in his growth almost every couple of months, and perhaps as a result of that, has suffered two back-to-back stress fractures, which saw him ruled out for almost a year. He’s gone through a lot. Every ball of his is monitored by his coach Atul Gaikwad, who has been working closely on his bowling action,” the daily quoted an unnamed source.