A former Indian batsman and a vocal cricket pundit Sanjay Manjrekar has openly admitted that he was never in favor of Shubman Gill, named as the Test captain of India. The way fans were celebrating 127 unbeaten 127 of Shubman Gill at the beginning of their captaincy against England in the first Test, Manjrekar’s bold revelation raised many eyebrows.
The commentator has so far stressed that Jaspreet Bumrah was a more qualified candidate for the captaincy of the test, cited in all conditions and in all three forms of the game, cited the performance of the Premier Fast Bowler’s proven match winning.
Sanjay Manjrekar was against Shubman Gill’s Test Captain appointment
Manjrekar believed that Indian selectors made a suspicious call by making Bumrah a new Test captain. But there was another story behind Gill’s appointment. In fact, Bumrah had already informed the BCCI before the retirement of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, that his body could no longer handle the pioneer in Test cricket and the double pressure of bowling.
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His clear message left national selectors without any option, but to name Gill as the future of India’s testing. However, Bumrah made these revelations after visiting England, where the Indian cricket team is playing a five -match Test series under the captaincy of Gill.
Sanjay Manjrekar said on Jiostar, “I was against it. Let’s be very honest, because I felt that Bumrah would be a better option and logical option, in fact without thinking too much about the future, looking in a crystal ball. So, I don’t think it was the right decision.”
Sanjay Manjrekar did not accept
The former Indian cricketer explained that he never doubted Gill’s calm mindset as a captain. He also felt that Gill did not allow the responsibility to affect his game, but he was not sure whether he was ready for such a big role, especially since he was still finding his feet under foreign circumstances.
Manjrekar further mentioned, “But what Shubman Gill was going to fail as a captain? No. As a captain, by nature, we knew that he would not worry about being a captain and would not affect his pattern. This is something we knew.
We had the only question that when he came into foreign cricket, it was still a kind of developed material. There were some questions about whether the additional pressure of captaincy could be very high for a person who has not imprinted much in foreign cricket. ,
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Gill does not have a great record in foreign trials, average just 27 away from home. Many people, including Manjrekar, had doubts. But the young Indian captain silenced his critics with a brilliant century on the first test day against England in Headingly.
Sanjay Manjrekar says that Shubman Gill fixed his flaws and proved everyone wrong.
Manjrekar admitted that Gill fixed the major technical flaws and showed the class with his amazing knock on his Test Captain Debut, and that too in England.
He signed this, saying, “Today, he got rid of three important technical areas, which you know, they were prevented from receiving big foreign 100. The pitch was good, bowling was favorable, but once he got rid of those technical issues, it is only a strength to see that it is a matter of nature and other things.”
In particular, Gill led India from the front with an notable knock of an unbeaten 127 and shared an important 129-run third wicket partnership with opener Yashsvi Jaiswal, which affected 101 fluency 101. The Indian captain took an unbeaten 138-rran partnership with Heading at 359/3.
