Previous Indian cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar praised his 58th birthday celebration on Wednesday, July 12. The ex-Indian centre request player has been an eminent cricket savant for quite a while and is known to have a decent eye for the game.
Manjrekar played 37 Tests and 74 ODIs for India. He scored a sum of 4,037 worldwide runs, including 24 half-hundreds of years and five hundreds. All things considered, Manjrekar is quite possibly the most sought-after examiner yet frequently shares an affection and-disdain relationship with players and watchers.
Manjrekar is known as somebody who expresses his real thoughts in an unpolished way. He is one of those Indian television cricket investigators who has had his portion of contentions.
🏏 2043 runs in Tests
🔥 1994 runs in ODI
💯 5 International hundredsHappy birthday to one of the finest players and commentator, Sanjay Manjrekar 🎂 pic.twitter.com/0qRbVTzh2b
— Sportskeeda (@Sportskeeda) July 12, 2023
There have been many cases where his contemplations and assessments have not gone down well with either the players or fans.
On the event of his 58th birthday celebration, we should investigate three of Sanjay Manjrekar’s most disputable assertions.
#1 His ‘pieces and pieces’ remark about Ravindra Jadeja
Sanjay Manjrekar blended a significant discussion and experienced harsh criticism for his comments on Ravindra Jadeja during the ICC Men’s Reality Cup 2019.
During the super occasion in Britain, Manjrekar labeled Jadeja as a ‘pieces and pieces’ player. In a meeting with IANS, the previous hitter said:
“I honestly hate pieces and pieces players, which Jadeja is right now of his vocation in 50-over cricket. In Test matches, he is an unadulterated bowler. Yet, in 50-over cricket, I would prefer to have a batsman and a spinner.”
The remarks didn’t go down well with the all-rounder, who took to Twitter to attack the Indian reporter in solid words.
Jadeja said: “In any case, I have played two times the quantity of matches you have played I’m actually playing. Figure out how to regard ppl who have accomplished. I have heard enough of your verbal loose bowels. @sanjaymanjrekar.”
In any case, after Jadeja’s awesome 77 in the 2019 World Cup semi-last against New Zealand, Sanjay Manjrekar conceded that the all-rounder misunderstood entirely demonstrated him.
#2 “Give Kohli another Test.. he doesn’t have a place here”
This was an instance of an old tweet being recovered and seen without the setting where it had been made. During India’s visit to Australia in 2011-12, Virat Kohli neglected to get a significant score in the initial two Tests.
Kohli, at that point, was the most recent batsman that India were utilizing to fill the no.6 space in the batting line-up, which had fallen empty by Sourav Ganguly’s retirement in 2008. Numerous batsman, like Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, and Cheteshwar Pujara, had been attempted at that space yet had neglected to solidify their position in the group.
With the Indian group looking drowsy in that series and Kohli neglecting to create brings about the initial two Tests, many individuals were prepared to proclaim the Delhi player as a disappointment as well.
The way Kohli had bombed in his presentation series in West Indies in 2011, comprising three Tests. He battled against short-pitched bowling and was additionally on fans’ and specialists’ brains.
It was in that setting that Sanjay Manjrekar put out this tweet:
I would still drop VVS & get rohit in for next test.Makes long term sense. give virat 1 more test..just to be sure he does not belong here.
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) January 6, 2012
Be that as it may, in 2019, a Twitter account retweeted this post without knowing, or introducing, the setting where it was made. Since Manjrekar is many times a punching pack for certain fans, it was gotten and utilized for attempting to humiliate him.
Nonetheless, Manjrekar brought up how there was a racket of voices at the time requiring Kohli’s head and he needed to allow the wonder another opportunity. The player-turned-expert even expressed that he was ‘pleased with’ this tweet.
Nonetheless, many saw it as one more incrimination of their thought process Manjrekar’s flaws as an examiner.
#3 “Pollard doesn’t possess the brainpower to play right off the bat in the innings”
Another Manjrekar explanation which didn’t go down well with a player came during the Indian Chief Association (IPL) 2017. In one of the games between the Mumbai Indians (MI) and the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in IPL 2017, Kieron Pollard was sent up the request to bat.
Manjrekar, who was in the analysis box at that point, felt that Pollard isn’t maybe competent to bat up the request. Manjrekar, on air, said, “Pollard doesn’t possess the brainpower to play from the get-go in the innings.”
Irritated with the live remarks, Kieron Pollard chose to straightforwardly address Manjrekar as he answered by means of the virtual entertainment stage Twitter.
Pollard had felt that the Indian ex-cricketer referred to him as “brainless” on air. He labeled the Indian cricketer-turned-analyst in his most memorable tweet, shooting him for his “antagonism” and “verbal loose bowels.”
“@sanjaymanjrekar u feel any good can emerge from your mouth bcuz u get pay to talk u can go on with your verbal the runs (sic),” Pollard tweeted.
A couple of days after the fact, Manjrekar answered to the analysis he gathered from Pollard and explained that, not at all like the West Indian’s thought process, he never referred to him as “brainless.”
“Said ‘Does he have the reach (to bat higher up the request)?’ Utilizing terms like ‘no minds’ or ‘brainless’ not my style. I can be basic however never annoying.”
Regardless of the relative multitude of misconceptions and contentions, Manjrekar actually stays one of the uncommon voices in the Indian telecom circuit.
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