Team Australia’s former player amazing take on Tendulkar junior, going toe-to-toe with Sachin Tendulkar

Watson said that the expectations and pressure of playing knowing that Arjun Tendulkar will be compared with Sachin at almost every step will pose a challenge.

Arjun Tendulkar had to wait 2 years to get his maiden IPL game. He bowled two overs against the Kolkata Night Riders and one over against the Sunrisers Hyderabad, where he defended 20 runs and picked his first IPL wicket. The wicket of Bhubaneswar Kumar taken by Arjun Tendulkar sent the internet into a complete meltdown as it marked the arrival of the next generation of Tendulkar. Former all-rounder of the Australia cricket team Shane Watson was also very impressed with how level-headed he found Arjun Tendulkar in those two matches he saw him bowl.
Watson said on the show, “Look, I’ve seen him around, but I hadn’t really seen him bowl before until the first two games that he has played.” It’s a super cool thing for him to be able to play with the expectations of being Sachin Tendulkar’s son here. Like in India, obviously, Sachin is a demigod. “The pressure that has been on Arjun Tendulkar to try and follow in his dad’s footsteps, even though in different ways — as a left-arm fast bowler — is huge credit to him just to be able to take it on knowing the pressure that is going to be on him.”
He also said that “the two games he has come into, Mumbai have won as well, which has also helped.” I haven’t seen a lot of him apart from him being around the MI dugout for the last couple of years, but credit to him. Because since the day he was born and worked his way through the ranks as a cricketer, the pressure that he would have had to experience is something you can’t imagine. “To come out and do very nicely in his first couple of games is very impressive.”