All posts tagged: Sanjay Manjrekar on Rohit Sharma

‘Let’s not panic’: Sanjay Manjrekar urges calm after Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma retirements | Cricket News

‘Let’s not panic’: Sanjay Manjrekar urges calm after Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma retirements | Cricket News

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Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar said that there was no need to panic after the back to back retirements of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in the space of a week, adding that the Indian team managed to move forward even after the Fab Four, comprising Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, and Sourav Ganguly, all hung up their boots. “I know there’ll be a few fans concerned. There was a sense of panic when the fab four quit all at the same time, but guess what? A couple of years later, India was the number one Test team in the world,” Manjrekar said on Instagram “So, as long as I believe in this very strongly, as long as the sport is popular in India and there are enough young players, youth, desperate to play for India, and there are thousands in India, which means anybody who sort of comes through that kind of a grind has to be quality talent,” said Manjrekar. Manjrekar also said that when Laxman, Ganguly, Dravid and Tendulkar retired, it …

IPL 2025 | Two losses typical of MI; they are on right track to win title: Sanjay Manjrekar’s audacious claims

IPL 2025 | Two losses typical of MI; they are on right track to win title: Sanjay Manjrekar’s audacious claims

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Two losses in two games was hardly anything to be alarmed about and in fact typical of Mumbai Indians starts, according to Sanjay Manjrekar. He was speaking exclusively on Kuhl Fans Match Centre Live on JioHotstar, and said the start of the match had been a downer, but not particularly relevant to title hopes.  “Mumbai Indians didn’t look in the race when they lost two wickets for 35. In comparison, Gujarat Titans had around 129 runs for their first two wickets. After that, it seemed like Tilak Varma and Suryakumar Yadav were trying to build a partnership. The challenge with building a partnership in a chase of over 190 is that the required run rate starts to suffer, and that’s exactly what happened. In the end, you have to say that Gujarat Titans batted better—I thought they got maybe 15 to 20 runs over par,” Manjrekar said. “The dew never came in, which made Mumbai’s job even more difficult,” he added. But he remained gung ho about their championship aspirations after a few dire seasons. …

Sanjay Manjrekar says it’s unlikely that Rohit Sharma will be there in the 2027 World Cup | Cricket News

Sanjay Manjrekar says it’s unlikely that Rohit Sharma will be there in the 2027 World Cup | Cricket News

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Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar said that it was very unlikely that current India skipper Rohit Sharma will stick around for the 2027 World Cup. Manjrekar also suggested that the ongoing Champions Trophy might be the last international tournament that Rohit takes part in. “I have a feeling (that) if he has decided, I mean can Rohit Sharma be there for the 2027 Cricket World Cup? I don’t think so, very unlikely. So, then, this could be, what you are suggesting, could be the final tournament,” said Manjrekar on ESPNcricinfo’s Matchday programme. “I’m expecting Rohit Sharma to go out there and he should be actually liberated not so much by this being his sort of swansong or whatever, just by the fact that so much of quality batting to come (from him),” added Manjrekar. Story continues below this ad Rohit has started the Champions Trophy with a dominant 41 runs against Bangladesh and notched up a 69-run partnership with vice captain Shubman Gill. Before that, he came back to form with a century against England …

Sanjay Manjrekar on India’s ‘hero worshiping’ cricket culture: ‘Icon players are dragging the team down’ | Cricket News

Sanjay Manjrekar on India’s ‘hero worshiping’ cricket culture: ‘Icon players are dragging the team down’ | Cricket News

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Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar has slammed country’s “hero worshipping” and “icon culture” behind India’s slump during every transition time. Manjrekar explained how even in the hero worshipping has affected India the most in the transition phase of the Indian cricket and the icon players drag the team down. India have lost back-to-back Test series against New Zealand (0-3) at home and against Australia (1-3) away. “The one foremost reason behind this is the icon culture we have in India and the hero worship of certain players,” he wrote in his column for Hindustan Times. “Be it 2011-12 or now, it’s the same scenario that gets played out — iconic players featuring prominently doing the opposite of what they did their entire careers, thereby dragging the team down with their diminished performances.” Manjrekar pointed out how India lost 0-8 in 2011-12 to England and Australia, where the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid struggled. However, Dravid scored four centuries in India’s 0-4 loss against England, and averaged 76.83 but in …

Rohit Sharma is not an all-time great to keep his exclusion mysterious: Sanjay Manjrekar | Cricket News

Rohit Sharma is not an all-time great to keep his exclusion mysterious: Sanjay Manjrekar | Cricket News

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Former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar has made a scathing comment on the “Rohit Sharma saga,” who has been dropped for the final Test in Sydney and the conformation came shortly before play with Jasprit Bumrah walking out for the toss. With scores of 3, 6, 10, 3 and 9 at an average of 6.2 for the series, Sharma has had a wretched tour since coming back into the side for the second test after he missed India’s comprehensive first test win in Perth on paternity leave. Sanjay Manjrekar questioned team management for keeping the news of Rohit Sharma sitting out of the fifth Test match a secret until the toss. “Rohit is well rested. The issue I have with Indian cricket culture, the secretive operation,” Manjrekar said on Star Sports. “Rohit is not an all-time great to keep his exclusion mysterious. “I can understand if it’s Virat Kohli. But Rohit has played 60-odd Tests with one overseas century and an average of just 40. I don’t get why it should be so mysterious.” From 67 …