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Arjun Tendulkar Selection Row: 'No injustice done'

With cricket fans across social media rising in anger over Pranav Dhanawade's (The Kalyan boy who set a World Record with his 1009*) non-inclusion in the U-16 West Zone squad, while questioning the selection of Sachin Tendulkar's son Arjun for the inter-zonal cricket tournament, the young boy's family and coach, Mubin Sheikh, don't seem to be complaining.

"I heard there is a lot of talk about Pranav's non selection in the West Zone U-16 squad, but we are not sad and not even thinking about it. In cricket, you cannot talk about things that are not is our control," Sheikh reportedly said according to a report on DNA India.

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Meanwhile, the Mumbai Cricket Association joint secretary PV Shetty has said it is difficult to pick Dhanawade now, "I cannot say about the zonal selection but we cannot pick him in the Mumbai probables too unless he scores runs. We haven't heard about him after he scored those 1,000 runs. But we will definitely include him if he starts scoring consistently," said Shetty reported DNA India.

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Dhanawade was rewarded with a monthly scholarship of Rs 10,000 by MCA after he achieved the feat.

Coach Sheikh, feels his ward has a lot of time to graduate to the next level. "He was destined to play that innings of 1,000 runs. Before that innings he was ordinary, but after playing that knock, he has only improved by leaps and bounds.

"However, he still has time. Maybe another two years to even make it to the U-19 team. We don't need to pressurise him. Just let him enjoy the game," Sheik said.

Dhanawade's coach also added that it's unfair to compare Pranav and Arjun, "It is unfair to both the kids. Pranav and Arjun are friends and have played together for MIG. Arjun is a good cricketer. It all the more sad considering his father has done the country proud so many times. One should not indulge in these thoughts," he said.

Since the historic knock, Dhanawade has managed a 150 in the next match and a couple of 40s in the rest of the games.

The inter-zonal cricket tournament that began in Hubli on May 24 will conclude on June 6.

U-16 West Zone Squad: OM Bhosale (Captain), Vasudev Patil, Suved Parker, Smit Patel, Sanpreet Bagga, Yashashvi Jaiswal, Divyansh Saxena, Neel Jadhav (Wk), Arjun Tendulkar, Yogesh Dongre, Atharva Ankolekar, Suraj Suryal, Siddharth Desai, Akash Pandey and Mukund Sardar.

Stand-bys: Kiran More, Satyalakshaya Jain, Nihar Bhuyan, Vignesh Solanki, Vaibhav Patil.



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