Arjun Tendulkar's big feat, which created such a stir for the first time in the Ranji Trophy, destroyed the opposing team.
Arjun Tendulkar has created a stir in the Ranji Trophy. Playing for Goa, he gave a brilliant performance against Arunachal Pradesh and destroyed the entire batting line up single-handedly with his sharp bowling. In fact, Arjun, son of India's great cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, took 5 wickets for 25 runs in 9 overs in the Ranji Trophy match that started on Wednesday, 13 November. Arjun, who is playing his 17th first-class match, has achieved the feat of taking a 5 wicket haul in an innings of a Ranji Trophy match for the first time. On the basis of this performance, Goa bowled out Arunachal Pradesh for just 84 runs.
Ball set 'fire' in Goa.
The 5th round of Ranji Trophy has started. The match between Goa and Arunachal Pradesh started on Wednesday, 13 November. In this match being played at the Goa Cricket Association ground, Arunachal Pradesh won the toss and decided to bat first. But Arjun Tendulkar wreaked such havoc that no batsman could survive. He gave the first blow to Arunachal Pradesh at a score of 8 runs by bowling out opener Nibam Hachang in the second over itself.
After some time, he again got Neelam Obi bowled and Jai Bhavsar trapped through LBW. After this, he got his 5th wicket by getting Chinmay Patil caught out and Moji Ete bowled. In this way, Arjun single-handedly destroyed the Arunachal Pradesh team by getting all the first 5 batsmen out on a score of just 36. The team could not recover from his havoc and could score only 84 runs in the first innings.
Arjun has played 16 first class matches before this, in which he has taken 32 wickets. During this, his best performance was taking 4 wickets for 49 runs. Arjun also contributes in batting. He has scored 531 runs in 16 matches at an average of 23, which includes 1 century and 2 half-centuries.
This was the performance in the fourth round
In the fourth round, Goa played against Mizoram. In this match, Goa declared the innings after scoring 555 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the first innings. During this, Arjun could not contribute with the bat. He was out without opening his account. In bowling, he took 2 wickets in the first innings, while in the second innings he got a chance to bowl 4 overs, in which he could not take any wicket.