"Always peddling Mumbai above India" - Twitter rips apart Sanjay Manjrekar for Sarfaraz Khan post

Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar has been in the news lately for making negative and racist comments towards North Indian cricketers. During the Women's T20 World Cup 2024, Manjrekar clearly stated during commentary that he doesn't pay attention to North Indian cricketers.

His comments drew a lot of flak from across various sections. Recently, he made another comment which hasn't gone down well with the social media users. Manjrekar tweeted a post after Sarfaraz Khan scored his maiden international hundred at Bengaluru against New Zealand.

Sanjay Manjrekar lauds Sarfaraz Khan's hundred

During his post, he referred to Sarfaraz Khan's batting as the ‘Mumbai School of batting’. "Love how Sarfaraz Khan is giving the finger to the ‘Mumbai school of batting’. Finally, it’s all about runs & boy he knows how to get those!" Manjrekar posted on X (formerly Twitter).

Love how Sarfaraz Khan is giving the finger to the ‘Mumbai school of batting’ 😉
Finally, it’s all about runs & boy he knows how to get those! 👏👏👏#INDvNZ

— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) October 19, 2024

Watch- Sarfaraz Khan's rain dance as he gets involved in a horrible mixup with Rishabh Pant

Twitter slams Sanjay Manjrekar for his congratulatory message for Sarfaraz Khan

Referring to Sarfaraz's batting to Mumbai and not the whole country drew lots of criticism for the former India batter. Twitter slammed him for being a racist and keeping Mumbai Cricket over India Cricket.

Bhai tera koi quota h ki har roz itane hazar Gali khani hi h 🤬🤬🤬 Yaha bhi Mumbai le hi aya chaman ch***

— Vidit Chauhan #Sidhearts❤️ (@ARFOREVER16) October 19, 2024

You have to mention Mumbai everytime when he's nothing like a typical Mumbai batsman
High back lift

— 🐐 (@viratxgoat18) October 19, 2024

Always peddling mumbai cricket above India cricket

— Bhavnoor 𝕏 (@BhavnoorSB) October 19, 2024

Maiden Test 100 For Sarfaraz Khan!

He Is The Definition Of Hard Work And Passion ❤

Sanjay start talking about mumbai lobby 🙏

But Sarfaraz khan deserve all praise from indian 🇮🇳 fans ❤️

Congratulations to Sarfaraz khan for maiden hundred 💯 in test cricket ✅

— Lord Kl Rahul 🇮🇳 (@temba214) October 19, 2024

What is the need of bringing Mumbai school of batting into this. Can we not just laud the Indian domestic circuit as a whole & the work done on the grass root level.

— Dhairya Chhalani (@d_chhalani) October 19, 2024

He and his obsession with mumbai based player 🤦..
Bhai vo mumbai ke liye nahi india ke liye khel raha hai .

— पहाड़ी लड़का 💛 (@AKIDFROMHILL) October 19, 2024

Mumbai se bahar nikalo kabhi to..

— Mukesh Dayat (@MukeshDayat95) October 19, 2024

I thought we are playing international games not ranji trophy

— Arun B (@realarun82) October 19, 2024

More than the hundred he is happy that Sarfaraz is a Mumbaikar

— Sai Ganesh (@saiganeshmsd) October 19, 2024

From last 15 years,we have been enjoying "Delhi School of batting" more than anyone.

And from the mi lobby,what we have mostly experienced is backing of "Mumbai school of batting" players more than they have performed. 😉

— Mr.CONSISTENT(KK) (@RR_Since1998) October 19, 2024

The 3 Mumbai batters of Rohit,Jaiswal and Sarfaraz aren't from what you claim to be "Mumbai school of batting"

— Kevin Dsouza (@kdsouza4738) October 19, 2024

Excellent knock from Sarfaraz Khan

Meanwhile, Sarfaraz Khan scored a magnificent hundred when India were under immense pressure. His innings was full of strokes and was a highly entertaining one. He came in to bat when India were under trouble at 95-2 and had just lost Rohit Sharma.

However, he combined with Virat Kohli and then Rishabh Pant to build brilliant partnerships to bail India out of trouble. Sarfaraz was unbeaten on 125 at lunch on Day 4 while his batting partner Rishabh Pant was on 53*.