“I have heard enough of your verbal diarrhea”- Ravindra Jadeja slams Sanjay Manjrekar

It’s not every day that you will see a present cricketer literally slamming a former senior Indian player openly. This was all to change when Indian allrounder Ravindra Jadeja publicly criticized Sanjay Manjrekar’s “bits and pieces” comments and stated that he has had enough of his “verbal diarrhea”.

If that was not enough of rebuke, Jadeja went on to add that he has played “twice the number of matches” Manjrekar played and he should learn to respect people.

Still i have played twice the number of matches you have played and i m still playing. Learn to respect ppl who have achieved.i have heard enough of your verbal diarrhoea.@sanjaymanjrekar

— Ravindrasinh jadeja (@imjadeja) July 3, 2019

Sanjay Manjrekar’s commentary and recent comments have been heavily criticized

He is the official commentator in both Hindi and English this world cup in 2019. His comments, however, have been to a lot of criticism mainly from the Indian cricket fans, his tweets have not helped either.

In the last few days, Manjrekar, especially, has been very critical of Jadeja, which is quite surprising for fans as Jadeja is yet to play a single match and only has fielded as a substitute and had done some great fielding. He has, however, never missed an opportunity to slam the cricketer.

“I am not a big fan of bits and pieces players which Jadeja is at this point of his career in 50-over cricket. In Test matches, he is a pure bowler. But in 50-over cricket, I would rather have a batsman and a spinner.”

What angered most of the fans was his criticism of MS Dhoni

Here’s something interesting about Dhoni -. 41 off 87 balls v spin this WC. But in the warm up games 69 off 56 balls v spin. That tells me it’s mental too. He does not put his wicket on the line as much in the big games.#ICCCWC2019

— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) July 2, 2019

Any mediocre cricketer like @sanjaymanjrekar starts analyzing legends like @msdhoni. Iska record to batao bhai log

— Gaurav Khare (@GKCivilServant) July 2, 2019

https://twitter.com/Prakashyo7871/status/1146127996517937152

Now fans have been angry and gunning for his head. Going as far as filing a petition in change.org for removing him as a commentator for this world cup.

Sanju Manju is so bad that even fans are muting @StarSportsIndia Hindi.

Let's try this. The next time Sanjay Manjrekar comes on commentary, Mute commentary, take a pic. Tweet with #SackManjrekar

If you don't like this senseless commentary do it. RT & Spread too. #IndvBan pic.twitter.com/mOP0K9lmJp

— Prabhu (@Cricprabhu) July 2, 2019

As a commentator, however, it is his right to criticize players when they are not performing. It doesn’t matter if the player in question has a better record than him. The problem this time has been his selective criticism of Dhoni and Jadeja which has left the fans fuming.