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| Full name | Arjun Tendulkar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 September 1999 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2020/21 | Mumbai | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–present | Mumbai Indians | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022/23–2024/25 | Goa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Arjun Tendulkar (born 24 September 1999) is an Indian cricketer from Mumbai,Maharashtra. He is the son of former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and is a left-handed fast medium bowler and left-handed lower-order batsman. He plays for Goa in domestic cricket, [2] [3] having previously played for Mumbai and its junior teams.
Arjun Tendulkar has been a part of the Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians since the 2021 season, [4] and made his debut with them in 2023. [5]
Tendulkar was born in Mumbai,Maharashtra to Anjali Tendulkar and former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar in 1999. He has an elder sister,Sara Tendulkar. [6]
His maternal grandparents are Anand Mehta,a Gujarati industrialist,and Annabel Mehta (née Lancaster),an English philanthropist who was awarded the Order of the British Empire for her service to underprivileged communities in Mumbai. [7]
His under-19 debut for India was against Sri Lanka in 2018. [8] He made his T20 debut on 15 January 2021,for Mumbai in the 2020–21 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy against Haryana. [9] On debut,he took 1/34 in his three overs. [2]
Mumbai Indians brought him in auction ahead of the 2021 IPL. [10] [11] In September 2021,he was selected in Mumbai's senior squad for the first time. He was included in Mumbai's 22-man Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy squad. [12] However,he was later ruled out of the 2021 IPL due to injury. [13] In February 2022,he was once again brought by the MI. [14] In August 2022,he quit Mumbai to join Goa ahead of the domestic season. He played for them in 2022–23 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. [3]
On 13 December 2022,Tendulkar made his first-class debut while playing against Rajasthan in the Ranji Trophy. He scored his maiden century hitting 120 off 207 balls in the first innings. [15] [16] He made his IPL debut for the Mumbai Indians on 16 April 2023 against the Kolkata Knight Riders. [17] He claimed his first IPL wicket in a match against Sunrisers Hyderabad by dismissing Bhuvneshwar Kumar. [18]
Standing at 6ft 3inch, the 18 year old Arjun is a left arm fast bowler and a handy lower middle order batsman.
Sachin Tendulkar revealed his wife Anjali decided to sacrifice her fledgling career as a pediatrician to make sure the batting great found success in the sport. Sachin Tendulkar married his girlfriend Anjali in 1995, just 6 years after making his international debut.
Mehta's family, the Lancasters, who hailed from Worcestershire, near Birmingham -- she is the daughter of a chartered accountant turned businessman and has three elder siblings -- were not enthralled with this plan that would take their daughter halfway around the world.