Mumbai Indians and Punjab Kings are locking horns with each other in the ongoing 31st match of the Indian Premier League 2023 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Meanwhile, the young MI all-rounder Arjun Tendulkar has made it to the headlines with his impressive bowlers just in the next over after the powerplay.
Arjun bowled an amazing yorker to PBKS opener Prabhsimran Singh on the fourth ball of the seventh over. The 23-year-old bowled directly into the blockhole and the ball went on to hit the pads straight in the line. The video of this excellent yorker bowled by Tendulkar Jr. also started making rounds on social media.
Subsequently, the fans also started praising the young bowler for an amazing bowling display at the beginning of the first innings of Punjab Kings. They took to Twitter to come up with a lot of interesting reactions and responses.
Hereโs the video:
WHAT A BALL FROM ARJUN TENDULKAR ๐ฅpic.twitter.com/Vf3f6U8cA1
โ Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) April 22, 2023
Hereโs how fans reacted:
he will play for India in T20Is, not quick but accurate & swings the ball.
โ AZ (@azkhawaja1) April 22, 2023
@sachin_rt would be a proud father happily watching his sonโs performance from the close corners
โ Viswanathan M (@viswam72) April 22, 2023
Perfect replacement for Bumrah in WC ......
โ Yuvraj Singh ๐ฎ๐ณ (@yuvrajsingchess) April 22, 2023
talented bowler just need to work on speed and he will be good to go
โ Parth Wadhwa (@parthhwadhwa) April 22, 2023
He is making an entry into this world. A special entry.
โ Shirsha Bhattacharyya (@Shirsha_18) April 22, 2023
Absolute toe-crusher ๐ฅ๐ฅ
โ ๐พ๐๐๐พ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐ผ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐ผ ๐ (@imAditya168_) April 22, 2023
Arjun๐๐๐ฅ
โ ๐๐ฌ๐ก๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐ฌ๐ก ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ก ๐คโจ (@ashu1409_) April 22, 2023
But why was the umpire in a hurry? He seemed 100% sure that there wasn't an under edge. Interesting
โ Ravi Kalle (@rt_Kalle) April 22, 2023
One of the best Yorkers in recent times
โ ---------- (@_doland_trump_) April 22, 2023
โ Naiking (@naikingblue) April 22, 2023
Bro has only one delivery:yorker
โ SHIVAM SHARMA๐ฎ๐ณ (@act_yash) April 22, 2023
This Yorker seems like zaheer's delivery against Andrew Strauss got lbw in wc
โ G Mani sankar (@Gsmsankar7) April 22, 2023
Speaking of the action of the match at the moment, Punjab Kings have scored 149 runs for the loss of four wickets in 16 overs. At the time of filling this copy, Harpreet Singh and stand-in skipper Sam Curran were there in the middle on the individual scores of 34 and 28 runs respectively.
Earlier Prabhsimran Singh and Atharva Taide contributed with scores of 26 and 29 runs respectively for the visitors.
The senior spinner Piyush Chawla has scalped two wickets so far for MI by conceding only 15 runs in his 3 overs. Other than him, Arjun Tendulkar and Cameron Green have also claimed one wicket each.
Hereโs a look at the playing XI of Mumbai Indians in the ongoing match against PBKS:
Rohit Sharma (C), Ishan Kishan (WK), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Tilak Varma, Arjun Tendulkar, Hrithik Shokeen, Jofra Archer, Piyush Chawla, and Jason Behrendorff.