When Arjun Tendulkar took out Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the final over of SRH’s 193-run chase against MI, his father, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, was in the MI dressing room to watch.
The Tuesday, IPL 2023 match between SunRisers Hyderabad and Arjun Tendulkar’s Mumbai Indians will live long in the memory. The 23-year-old bowler for the Mumbai Indians finally got his first wicket in the top Twenty20 tournament in this game. When Arjun Tendulkar took out Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the final over of SRH’s 193-run chase against MI, his father, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, was in the MI dressing room to watch. With SRH needing 20, the final over was given to Arjun. The final score was 14 runs in favor of MI. After claiming his first victim, Arjun praised Sachin’s advice.
To get my first IPL wicket was awesome, of course. All I could do was concentrate on the task at hand, which was to carry out the strategy. He continued, “Our strategy was just to bowl wide and bring the long boundary into play, forcing the batter to drive the ball to the longer side.
If the captain needs me to bowl, I’ll gladly do so and do my best to contribute to the team’s overall strategy. Both he and Sachin Tendulkar are huge cricket fans, and they regularly debate strategies and techniques in the lead-up to games. I simply concentrated on my delivery, bowling accurate front-to-back deliveries of decent length and line. Whether or not it makes a sound is incidental.
Cameron Green displayed his raw power on the way to his first IPL fifty, and the Mumbai Indians went on to beat the Sunrisers Hyderabad by 14 runs thanks to Arjun Tendulkar’s outstanding 20th over under intense pressure. After being put into bat, Green (64 not out off 40) and Tilak Varma (37 off 17) propelled Mumbai Indians to a formidable 192 for five.
The oddball not coming on to the bat made it difficult to hit the boundaries right away, but opener Mayank Agarwal (48 runs off 41 balls) and Heinrich Klaasen (36 runs off 16 balls) helped Sunrisers recover from a lackluster powerplay and advance to the latter stages of the game.
Their final score of 178 after 19.5 overs was not enough to prevent a third loss in as many games.
While Agarwal contributed with few runs, it was Klaasen’s knock that put the pressure on Mumbai. In a 21-run over, the South African batsman reverse swept the veteran leggie Piyush Chawla for four and six.
Marco Jansen (13 off 6) and Washington Sundar (10 off 10) kept the game intriguing for the Sunrisers with a series of boundaries, but Sundar eventually paid the price for careless dashing between the wickets and the team fell short of their target of 60 runs in the final 30 balls.
With the Sunrisers needing 20 runs in the final over, Tendulkar, playing in his second IPL game, once again bowled two overs with the new ball.
Tendulkar made the right call by opting to bowl full and wide, helping his team win. In doing so, he took his first wicket in the IPL.
