In the last decade and a half, Indian Cricket was almost synonymous with one name- Sachin Tendulkar.
The Master Blaster has provided the nation full of people who are mad about the sport a reason to not shy away from the madness. And it now looks like the next generation of Indian Cricket will get its own Tendulkar.
For the inter-zonal U-16 tournament to be played at Hubli from May 24, all the squads were submitted and one name stood out from all the players.
The West Zone squad, announced by Baroda Cricket Association secretary Snehal Parikh, had ‘Arjun Tendulkar’ son of the Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar in it.
All India Junior selection committee was in charge of the selection process and finalized the teams on Monday.
This committee consists of coaches Tushar Arothe, Shantanu Sugwekar, Samir Dighe and J Krishna Rao and was presided by its chairman Rakesh Parikh.
Om Bhosle, the talk of the domestic circuit is set to lead the team into the tournament that will end on the 6th of June.
U-16 West Zone Squad: OM Bhosale (Captain), Vasudev Patil, Suved Parker, Smit Patel, Sanpreet Bagga, Yashashvi Jaiswal, Divyansh Saxena, Neel Jadhav (Wk), Arjun Tendulkar, Yogesh Dongre, Atharva Ankolekar, Suraj Suryal, Siddharth Desai, Akash Pandey and Mukund Sardar.
Stand-Bye: Kiran More, Satyalakshaya Jain, Nihar Bhuyan, Vignesh Solanki, Vaibhav Patil
Arjun, who is now 15, has already shown his class in last year’s U-14 Zonal and is looking a bright prospect for India in the future.
In a few years, with enough of experience behind him, Arjun Tendulkar can make it to the senior squads in the Zonal and can easily find himself an IPL contract in no time.
However, coming from such a huge background, Arjun will have loads of pressure to perform and if he can handle it, he can surely be a find for the nation.