The year 2019 will see Arjun Tendulkar making his move into the big league. He will debut in the 2019 edition of the T20 Mumbai League.The move follows his recent successful run that saw him put up an impressive display in the DY Patil T20 Cup and culminated with his selection in Mumbai’s U-23 team for a domestic one-day competition last month.

Earning his spurs playing in the Mumbai junior teams, namely the Under-14, Under-16 and Under-19 levels, the last two years have seen the young Tendulkar roar back into action after having to slow down in 2016 due to injury. He utilised his downtime fruitfully to work with his coach, Atul Gaikwadon tweaking his bowling action paying special attention to the biomechanics and aerodynamics. Earlier, Arjun has also trained with Subroto Banerjee, who was Sachin Tendulkar’s teammate.

The results of his hard work are evident in the visible improvement in his pace and accuracy, which saw him claiming 19 wickets in only 5 games for the Mumbai U-19 team in the 2017-18 Cooch Behar Trophy.Earlier, in July 2017, as part of the MCC squad, he played two matches against Namibia Under-19 in England where he took four wickets to bowl Namibia out for 49, helping MCC XI win both matches. Playing for Cricket Club of India XI against a Hong Kong-based side at the Bradman Oval in Adelaide in January 2018, he played a swashbuckling 48 off just 27 balls before going on to pick up four wickets. He also picked up four wickets in the RFS Talyarkhan Memorial invitation tournament where he picked up four wickets.

After a month-long camp in Dharamsala in April last year, Arjun was named in India’s U-19 team last year where he played in two matches against Sri Lanka. He bagged his first India U-19 wicket finishing his debut with figurers of 1/33. India won the two match series.

Fans of the 19-year old left arm fast medium and left arm bat will soon be able to see him in action in the second edition of the T20 Mumbai League which will get underway shortly.