‘Just forget you are son of Sachin Tendulkar’ - Yograj Singh recalls his message to Arjun Tendulkar before latter's first training session

Ahead of the ongoing Ranji Trophy, former India cricketer, Sachin Tendulkar reached out to Yograj Singh with the request of training his son. Arjun, who never got enough opportunities to play for Mumbai, wanted to excel in the domestic season for Goa and thus, Sachin approached the 64-year-old as he has prior experience coaching youngsters including his own son, Yuvraj Singh.

While revealing what went behind the scenes, Yograj mentioned the kind of talent Arjun Tendulkar possesses and what are the things he worked on to develop the 23-year-old’s game.

“Just forget you are the son of a legend called Sachin Tendulkar. You have your own identity. Just come tomorrow and start training. I will train you for 15 days,” Yograj who played seven matches for India told Arjun on his first meeting.

“When Arjun came. I asked him to run 10 rounds of the stadium. He was running fine. Then I asked him to bowl in the nets. The problem was his left arm was very close to his ear while bowling. I corrected that first. He was a quick learner. He learned this thing very fast. He started bowling well,” Yograj said while speaking to TOI.

I see a lot of similarities between Yuvi and Arjun: Yograj

Yograj, who’s known as a hard taskmaster was very impressed with Arjun’s progress under him. He mentioned how the youngster can smash sixes for fun and has the ability to become the world’s best all-rounder. The Chandigarh-born cricketer also mentioned that he has noticed a lot of similarities between Yuvraj Singh and Arjun Tendulkar.

“He is an all-rounder. Then why were teams sending him down the order? He is a hard-hitting all-rounder like Yuvraj. I see a lot of similarities between Yuvi and Arjun. He will go a long way. One day, the world will remember his name the way they remember Sachin's name. Arjun will become the most destructive batsman in the world,” the 64-year-old said.