Arjun Tendulkar has warmed the benches for 28 IPL matches across two seasons and all the advice his iconic father has is — the path ahead will be challenging and the young all-rounder needs to put in the hard yards.

Arjun, a left-arm pacer and a left-handed batter, was picked up by five-time IPL champions Mumbai Indians but did not get a single game across two seasons of the lucrative league.

Father Sachin said: “This is a different question. What I am thinking or what I feel is not important. The season is already over.

“And my conversation with Arjun has always been that the path is going to be challenging, it is going to be difficult. You started playing cricket because you are in love with cricket, continue to do so, continue to work hard and results will follow,” Tendulkar said on a show, SachInsight, when asked whether he would have liked to watch Arjun play this year.

In his career so far, the 22-year-old Arjun has only played two T20 games for his domestic side Mumbai.

Sachin, who has been associated with Mumbai Indians, also made it clear that he does not interfere in team selections. “If we speak about selection, I have never involved myself in selection. I leave all these things to the (team) management because that is how I have always functioned,” the legend emphasised.