Indian seamers can break down at any time: Manjrekar

[Raghav_12]

Indian seamers can break down at any time: Manjrekar

India won both its pre—World Cup warm—up games but the team’s fast bowlers did not gain any confidence from that, says former batsman Sanjay Manjrekar who would not be surprised if “one of the pacers break down in the middle of the tournament“. “I don’t think the warm—up games helped either Ashish Nehra or Munaf Patel in any manner. Their confidence will have definitely taken a dip after these two matches. These two bowlers also looked a bit fragile while fielding. That is a major weakness for India going into this big tournament,†Manjrekar told ‘Mobile ESPN’ “With Zaheer Khan also yet to attain full fitness, I will not be surprised if one of the pacers break down in the middle of the tournament,†he said. The Indian team beat defending champions Australia and New Zealand in their warm—up ties on Sunday and Wednesday, respectively. However, Munaf and Nehra were far from impressive in both the matches. They bowled four wicketless overs between them during the 38—run win over Australia in Bangalore. In the 117—run victory over New Zealand in Chennai, Nehra took a couple of wickets but conceded 55 runs in his seven overs while Munaf once again went wicketless in his three—over spell. Talking about the spinners, Manjrekar praised Piyush Chawla and R Ashwin for their fine show in the warm—up games. “Chawla will be delighted with his impressive showing. If his services are required in the middle of the tournament you won’t have a nervous leg—spinner playing his first World Cup game. “This is a major plus point for the Indian team going into the mega—event. Also Ashwin was brilliant on Wednesday (against New Zealand),†he said. The two bowlers grabbed eight of the 20 wickets against Australia and New Zealand.

I wonder if this guy has anything positive to say about India and Indian players. Wonder why Indian media even asks him for comments.

[Ranjha]

Manju ke articles mat post kara karo. He is stupid.

[Jersey #10]

Stop wasting bandwidth on his shyt

[fineleg]

:finger: @ Manju

[Deleted_User_1]

he is right. Indian pacers are shyte!!

[desi pride 1234]

that pakistani manju shold be ignored...

[Roshanrocks]

Well Nehra is injured :idunno:

[Late Cut]

The man is a genius i tell you. What is he gonna predict next? An indian opener will score a 50? An aussie quick will break down? A paki player will say something nonsensical? Akshay Kumar had an eye lift?:winky:

[ravishingravi]

The truth of the matter is our cricket fans might want to hear something else, something more acceptable than reality. He has said this to be best batting line up under the condition which it is. As for bowlers, are they inspiring a lot of confidence for anyone be it in terms of their fitness or their perfomance ? Btw Nehra already declared unfit for first game. So, you have two injury prone bowlers in Zaheer and Nehra. Then you have Sreesanth who came as a replacement to injured Kumar who was also injured till last year. We are pretty much on a wing and prayer to get through the tournament.

[Hindustani]

the probelm is poor fitness and lack of commitment to improve fitness. I still don't see much difference in Munna's fielding efforts when it is clearly visible that he is the worst fielder in the team. Similarly for others, though I have seen Nehra diving couple of times so atleast he is working on his fielding. Anyway I am assuming Manjrekar's next comment will be on how can we use game theory predictions to predict Fiscal deficit of the world

[Sachin=GOD]

Yeh Pakistani commentators ke comments yahan kyo post karte ho bhai :hysterical: