Ravindra Jadeja and Sanjay Manjrekar haven’t had the most effective equation on social media because the former cricketer termed the Indian all-rounder a ‘bits and pieces player’ in the course of the 2019 World Cup. The all-rounder additionally responded to the criticism on Twitter, calling his commentary ‘verbal diarrhoea.’
After his fifty within the 2019 WC semi-final, Jadeja had taunted Manjrekar on the commentary studio with ‘Ab kya bologe?’ shrug. Later he additionally defined that well-known celebration to this newspaper.
“Tab toh Bhatta garam tha, na! (The grill was hot, then!) I was searching for the commentary box. Then I thought, it must be somewhere there, only. And those who understand would know who I was targeting the celebration at!”
On Sunday, in the course of the post-match interview, the previous India batter Sanjay Manjrekar requested a cheeky query to Ravindra Jadeja after India’s five-wicket win over Pakistan within the Asia Cup.
Manjrekar requested: “First question – You are ok to talk to me? Right, Jaddu?”
Jadeja replied: “Yeah, yeah (laughs). Absolutely!!”
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Hardik Pandya (33 not out) and Ravindra Jadeja (35) placed on a useful 52-run stand for the fifth wicket and took the sport deep. With seven required off the final six balls, Nawaz clear bowled Jadeja with the primary ball earlier than Pandya completed off the sport in fashion.
“We wanted to play till the end, they have a very good bowling attack, their fast bowlers don’t give anything away. I could have finished the game – left-arm spinner against the left-hander, but Hardik played superbly. He (Pandya) came out and said he was going to play his shots, and happy that he stayed till the end,” Jadeja informed Manjrekar within the post-match interview.
Pandya claimed 3-25 together with his fiery short-pitched deliveries and helped India to restrict Pakistan to 147 earlier than smashing an unbeaten 33 off 17 balls which carried India to 148-5 with simply two balls to spare.
Pakistan are nonetheless favourite to advance as it should tackle qualifier Hong Kong in its final Group A sport. Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are in Group B.
The highest two groups from each teams advance to the Tremendous 4 stage the place they are going to play one another as soon as earlier than the highest two advance to the ultimate on September 11.