{"id":2922,"date":"2016-06-05T07:51:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T07:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2016-06-05T07:51:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T07:51:42","slug":"why-arjun-tendulkar-selected-over-pranav-dhanawade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=2922","title":{"rendered":"Why Arjun Tendulkar selected over Pranav Dhanawade?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Why-Arjun-Tendulkar-selecte-1\"<\/a>There\u2019s been a huge furore over the selection of Arjun Tendulkar in the Under-16 West Zone squad, some questioning if it was done at the cost of Pranav Dhanawade \u2013 the kid who broke the 1000-run barrier in a single knock recently.<\/p>\n

Are you able to remember him? The 15-year-old player from Mumbai who took the cricket world by storm with his 1000-run knock in a local game in January 2016. So what had he done now? What was Arjun Tendulkar up to?<\/p>\n

While the social media is unhappy that Arjun was selected because of \u2018influence of his father\u2019 \u2013 Sachin Tendulkar, they also argue that Pranav\u2019s record innings of 1, 009 runs was ignored.<\/p>\n

Tweets like these were plenty on social media.\u00a0Are u being fair to Pranav Dhanawade, a rickshaw driver\u2019s son?@ianuragthakur @sachin_rt @kamaalrkhan<\/p>\n

Please RT! pic.twitter.com\/YIo5ouqcoF\u00a0\u2014 Pramod Speaks (@PramodSpeaks) 31 May 2016\u00a0But there is more to the story.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Firstpost, Pranav\u2019s father Prashant Dhanawade explained further, \u201cThe selection for Mumbai\u2019s U-16 team happened before Pranav\u2019s record. They had also played a few matches. So since Pranav didn\u2019t feature for the Mumbai U-16 team, he cannot be a part of the West zone side, that\u2019s the procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also quashed reports that Arjun was favoured over Pranav courtesy Sachin\u2019s contacts within the higher ups of BCCI. \u201cArjun and Pranav are good friends, they speak regularly with each other. Pranav too has now moved under the U-19 category, but since the selection was made when he was under the age of sixteen, he will complete his zonal matches before moving to the U-19 category, as per the BCCI rule.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mumbai Cricket Association joint secretary PV Shetty said it is difficult to pick Dhanawade right now. \u201cI cannot say about the zonal selection but we cannot pick him in the Mumbai probables too unless he scores runs. We haven\u2019t heard about him after he scored those 1,000 runs. But we will definitely include him if he starts scoring consistently,\u201d said Shetty.\u00a0MCA had rewarded Dhanawade with a monthly scholarship of Rs 10,000 after he achieved the feat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s been a huge furore over the selection of Arjun Tendulkar in the Under-16 West Zone squad, some questioning if it was done at the cost of Pranav Dhanawade \u2013 the kid who broke the 1000-run barrier in a single knock recently. Are you able to remember him? The 15-year-old player from Mumbai who took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}