Australia vs India 2018: Twitter Brutally Trolls Sanjay Manjrekar For Doubting Virat Kohli's Decision

Indian National Cricket Team had played some excellent cricket in the first innings to take a lead of 292 runs on day three of the Boxing Day Test. Meanwhile, Virat Kohli decided to declare their first innings at 443 for seven with 30 minutes remaining on day two. Former cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar questioned Kohli’s decision and in return gets brutally trolled for doubting skipper Kohli’s declaration.

Manjrekar doubts Kohli’s decision

Indian skipper Virat Kohli declared the first innings just half an hour before the end of day two. They scored 443 runs with the loss of seven wickets before declaring the innings. Cheteshwar Pujara was the lone centurion who scored 106 runs from 319 deliveries including ten boundaries. There was also some crucial knock from debutant Mayank Agarwal who slammed his maiden half-century scoring 76 runs against Australia. Kohli along with Rohit Sharma are the other two half-centurions from the Indian team.

Captain Kohli decided to declare the innings when Rohit Sharma was batting on 63 and was marching his way towards a century. There was some disappointment on social media regarding Kohli’s call and joining the masses was Sanjay Manjrekar, who felt the declaration move was pretty strange. The former Indian cricketer felt with Rohit in the middle; they could’ve gone past the 500-run mark.

“Strange declaration from India. With Rohit there India could have got 50/75 runs or even more runs, runs which would be harder to get batting second. Made sense in getting them now.” Sanjay Manjrekar tweeted.

Strange declaration from India. With Rohit there India could have got 50/75 runs or even more runs, runs which would be harder to get batting second. Made sense in getting them now.#AusvInd

— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) December 27, 2018

Meanwhile, there was some obvious distress on Twitter after Manjrekar shared his opinion. However, the right-hander holds some exciting records in the limited overs format. However, when it comes to Tests, Rohit is yet to cement his spot in the playing XI.

Moreover, commentators like Sanjay Manjrekar and Sunil Gavaskar have always been under the scanner for being too biased towards Mumbai cricketers. According to the fans, Rohit’s case was another such occasion where Manjrekar tried to highlight Sharma by putting captain Kohli under the negative spotlight.

Here is how the twitter reacted:

https://twitter.com/landlord0007/status/1078181325058670594

Yep. He should not have declared and let Ro score 200 so that india can bat for 3 days amd Aus will bat 2 days is that fine for you?

— Sam? (@Im_samps18) December 27, 2018

That missed Mumbai ? hurts..eh?

— Indraneel B (@Unwise_cracker) December 27, 2018

He doesn't care about the result
He wants India to bat 5 days and Rohit to get 500

— Krishna (@krisbangalore95) December 27, 2018

Looks like Sanju Manju loves Rohit Sharma more than anyone else!

— Prahalad (@prahaladkobla) December 27, 2018

You and your affair with rohit knows no bounds

— Arvindh (@bharathiarvind) December 27, 2018

https://twitter.com/AmarKallappa/status/1078243092954664960

Arrey ma'am wo @ImRo45 ki century ke liye bol rahe hain aisa. "Bombay school of Batsmanship" ?

— Gee Tee (@Fire_and_Move) December 27, 2018

Aap to rehne do sir. Aapka bas chale to Mumbai Ranji team ko hi aap India ka playing 11 bana do.

— Sarthak Agarwal (@sarthak2178) December 27, 2018

why the hell did rohit play slowly when we knew we would declare before eod?

— Elite Kannadiga?? (@nikhib69) December 27, 2018

https://twitter.com/Anish__Speaks/status/1078183140642836481

This is not your era’s team Sanjay. They play to win, not for draw.

— Tapan Lakdawala (@tapklak) December 27, 2018

https://twitter.com/AmarKallappa/status/1078181106707456001

So have anything to say about the declaration now? anything at all? Chu… @sanjaymanjrekar

— z N e D (@MadMart05) December 28, 2018