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He was also one of his 19 opening partners in one-day cricket.

Arjun, a left-arm paceman and left-handed batsman was picked after participating in the national under-19 camp in Dharamsala last week.

Unlike his famous father, he falls more in the bracket of a bowling all-rounder and had hit the headlines for a four-wicket haul and a 27-ball 48 earlier this year in the Spirit of Cricket Global Challenge in Australia.

Arjun has represented Mumbai in the under-14 and under-16 formats. In the Cooch Behar Trophy last season, he had played in five of the six games, taking 18 wickets. As a batsman, he had scored just 94 runs in five innings at an average of 18.80.

Being Tendulkar’s son has made Arjun one of the most followed junior cricketers in Mumbai — a following the comes with the extra scrutiny and pressure, prompting Tendulkar to urge fans and experts to keep the spotlight away from Arjun.

Last year, Arjun bowled at the Team India nets during the home series against New Zealand in Mumbai. Earlier in 2017, during a nets session at Lord’s, a toecrushing yorker by him had left England wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow with an injury scare. This March, he had opted out of the Mumbai Twenty20 league to remodel his bowling action. willingness to change, accept and adapt to the other person’s point of view.”

“He particularly reminded Prime Minister Narendra Modi that happiness of people is the happiness of ruler, their welfare is his welfare,” Surjewala added.

(With inputs from HTC, New Delhi)