Rahul Tiwari
khelja|21-12-2024
Goa team started with victory in Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25. Goa defeated Odisha in its first match of the tournament. In this match played between the two teams at Dr. Soni Stadium in Jaipur, Sachin Tendulkar's son Arjun Tendulkar performed amazingly. Arjun Tendulkar made an important contribution in Goa's victory. Let us tell you, during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Arjun Tendulkar was out of the team in the middle of the tournament, his performance was also not anything special. But he has given a strong innings in Vijay Hazare Trophy.
In this match, Goa batted first after losing the toss. During this, Goa's batsmen showed strong performance and scored 371 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 50 overs. During this period, Ishan Gadekar played the highest innings of 93 runs. Whereas, captain Darshan Misal contributed 79 runs and Suyyash Prabhudesai contributed 74 runs. Snehal Kauthankar also scored 67 runs. Although Arjun Tendulkar did not get a chance to bat during this innings, he was the most successful bowler of his team while defending the target.
Arjun Tendulkar started the bowling for Goa. He gave a very good start to his team. He proved to be very economical in the initial overs. After this, he started the process of taking wickets in his second spell and made 3 batsmen his victims one after the other. Arjun Tendulkar spent 61 runs in 10 overs at an economy rate of 6.10 and took a total of 3 wickets. He made Kartik Biswal, Abhishek Raut and Rajesh Mohanty his victims. Apart from Arjun, Shubham Tari and Mohit Redkar also took 2-2 wickets and led the team to victory.
Arjun Tendulkar's performance in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy was very poor. He got a chance to play a total of 3 matches. But he could take only 1 wicket in these matches and then was out of the team. After this, Arjun Tendulkar was seen spending holidays in Dubai. But now he has made a strong comeback.