Sachin Tendulkar’s son Arjun Tendulkar named in Mumbai Ranji squad; Prithvi Shaw to lead

Last year, Arjun Tendulkar played a couple of matches for the limited-overs team of Mumbai but is yet to make his debut in red-ball cricket.

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Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar’s son Arjun Tendulkar, who is a pace all-rounder, was on Wednesday (December 29) named in Mumbai’s 20-member squad for the upcoming Ranji Trophy 2021-22.

Last year, Arjun played a couple of matches for the limited-overs team of Mumbai but is yet to make his debut in red-ball cricket.

The 41-time Ranji champions Mumbai are placed in Elite nine-team Group C and will open their campaign against Maharashtra on January 13. They will clash against Delhi from January 20 in Kolkata.

Meanwhile, flamboyant opener Prithvi Shaw was named as captain of the team for the first two matches of the tournament.

"Prithvi is a brilliant captain and fantabulous opening batsman, what else you need," Mumbai chief selector Salil Ankola told PTI.

Young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, middle-order batters Sarfaraz Khan, Arman Jaffer and Aakarshit Gomel have made it to the 20-member squad along with experienced stumper-batter Aditya Tare.

All-rounder Shivam Dube, who has played one ODI and 13 T20Is, has been also picked by the selection committee that has Gulam Parkar, Sunil More, Prasad Desai and Anand Yalvigi.

The bowling attack will be led by experienced pacer Dhaval Kulkarni. Medium pacer Mohit Awasthi, left-arm spinner Shams Mulani, off-spinner Shashank Attarde and left-arm medium pacer Roystan Dias form the attack.

Squad: Prithvi Shaw (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Aakarshit Gomel, Arman Jaffer, Sarfaraz Khan, Sachin Yadav, Aditya Tare (wk), Hardik Tamore (wk), Shivam Dube, Aman Khan, Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Prashant Solanki, Shashank Attarde, Dhaval Kulkarni, Mohit Awasthi, Prince Badiani, Siddharth Raut, Roystan Dias, Arjun Tendulkar