Sachin Tendulkar's son Arjun Tendulkar included into Mumbai's Ranji Trophy 2021-2022 Squad

 
Arjun Tendulkar included in Mumbai's Ranji Team

About more than 30 years back, a 15-year-old Sachin Tendulkar made his Ranji Trophy debut for Mumbai in December 1987, and scored a century on his debut match itself. And now, the Tendulkar family has received another good news, again in December, 33 years after Sachin's debut. Sachin Tendulkar's son Arjun Tendulkar has got his maiden call to Mumbai's Ranji Trophy team.

Arjun Tendulkar has got a chance in Mumbai's 20-man Ranji squad for this season. He was named in the Mumbai squad for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, India's domestic Twenty20 tournament last year. He played 2 matches during the tournament. And now the 22-year-old left-arm pacer is set to make his debut in first-class cricket.

Earlier this year, Arjun got a team in IPL for the first time. He was bought by the Mumbai Indians for Rs 20 lakh, his father Sachin was the advisor of the team and has also played for them. However, Arjun did not get a chance to play any matches. Later he got injured.

Those two matches of the Mushtaq Ali Trophy are Arjun's experience in recognized cricket. He has also played two youth Tests for the India U-19 team in 2016 during the tour of Sri Lanka.

Arjun's father Sachin's record for Mumbai is incredible. He got a place in the Indian team at the age of 16 and could not play many matches for the state team. But as far as playing is concerned, the performance was scintillating. 9 centuries in 25 first class matches, 2,081 runs at an average of 60.83.

Prithvi Shaw to captain Mumbai in Ranji Trophy 2021-2022

Prithvi Shaw will lead the 41-time champion Mumbai team in the traditional Ranji Trophy this time. Last year, under his leadership, Mumbai won the Vijay Hazare Trophy in the domestic one-day tournament. Prithvi, Indian youth team's captain, who also won the title in the 2018 U-19 World Cup. However, this is the first time he will lead a team in first-class cricket.

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