Image Source : TWITTER File images of Sachin Tendulkar (left) and Arjun Tendulkar.
Arjun Tendulkar has been butt of all jokes off late after the left-handed Mumbai pacer was picked up on the IPL 2021 public sale by defending champions Mumbai Indians at his base worth of Rs 20 lakh.
The reality that he’s the nice Sachin Tendulkar’s son has not been very variety on him. Eyebrows have been raised each time up to now when the 21-year-old bowler was chosen for the India U-19 crew or the Mumbai home crew and the controversy of nepotism heated up
However, this time round issues took a flip for worse as deplorable memes went trending quickly after Arjun turned the final participant to be picked on the IPL public sale. The reality that he’s a younger cricketer, who simply made his debut for Mumbai in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and performed two video games, scoring three runs and choosing two wickets, did not assist his trigger both because the criticism solely intensified.
Amid all this hullabaloo got here Sachin’s tweet on Saturday the place the legend praised Virat Kohli for opening up in an interview on a bout of melancholy he suffered whereas enjoying for the Indian crew.
Sachin’s tweet learn: “@imVkohli, proud of your success & decision to share such personal experiences. These days youngsters are constantly judged on social media. Thousands speak about them but not to them. We need to be able to listen to them and help them flourish.”
His phrases on “youngsters being constantly judged on social media” virtually felt like a cryptic tweet the place Sachin opened as much as the critics that the allegations of nepotism pointed at his son are unfair and will solely additional demoralise him when the main focus must be on nurturing the expertise he’s.
While one may nonetheless make a degree that the tweet was solely devoted to Kohli and never his son, one cannot ignore the truth that Sachin has been quiet about all of the allegations directed in direction of him and his son and that is his respectful means of answering the naysayers that every one his son deserves is an opportunity to show his price with out being judged on the social media.