Arjun Tendulkar was picked by Mumbai Indians within the 2022 Indian Premier League public sale. He was picked by the identical franchise within the earlier 12 months’s public sale as effectively. Nevertheless, in each seasons, the pacer completed the event with out taking part in a single sport. Mumbai Indians (MI) bowling coach Shane Bond has defined the choice behind benching Arjun all through the season.
Bond, the previous New Zealand quick bowler and bowling coach of MI, burdened that the 22-year-old nonetheless must develop himself. MI went for a number of different younger recruits this season comparable to Dewald Brevis, Tim David, Ramandeep Singh, Kumar Kartikeya, Tristan Stubbs and Sanjay Yadav and whereas most of them got the chance, Arjun, for the second season in a row, went unused.
Arjun Tendulkar has a whole lot of exhausting work and improvement to do: Shane Bond
The previous Kiwi pacer talked about that Arjun wants to enhance his batting and fielding earlier than discovering his place within the taking part in XI.
“He’s obtained some work to go. If you’re taking part in for a workforce like Mumbai, making the squad is one factor however getting into the taking part in XI is one other. He nonetheless has a whole lot of exhausting work and improvement to do. If you play at this degree, there’s a high-quality line between giving everybody a sport… however it’s a must to earn your spot too. Arjun must work on his batting and fielding earlier than discovering a spot on the workforce. Hopefully, he could make these progressions and earn a spot within the workforce,” Bond advised Sportskeeda.
Earlier, Arjun’s father Sachin himself had revealed his recommendation to his son. “My dialog with Arjun has at all times been that the trail goes to be difficult, it’s going to be tough. You began taking part in cricket since you are in love with cricket, proceed to take action, proceed to work exhausting and outcomes will observe,” Tendulkar had mentioned on SachInsight.
In the meantime, MI’s marketing campaign this 12 months was a lot beneath their common requirements because the five-time champions ended the event with solely 4 wins in 14 video games, sitting down on the backside of the desk.
