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What An Epic OWNAGE Given To The Team Management By Pujara


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Sanju Manju may be an idiot but I doubt he would lobby for Rohit. Atleast I haven't seen him do so.
I have seen him do it quite a few times indirectly.
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Sanju Manju may be an idiot but I doubt he would lobby for Rohit. Atleast I haven't seen him do so.
you can see now. @sanjaymanjrekar Disagree with Mukul Kesavan that Pujara got short changed to accommodate Rohit in test XI. He has made Rohit a convenient scapegoat.
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I have seen him do it quite a few times indirectly.
He has been going full throttle in that campaign all series :cantstop:
you can see now. @sanjaymanjrekar Disagree with Mukul Kesavan that Pujara got short changed to accommodate Rohit in test XI. He has made Rohit a convenient scapegoat.
Ok then I change my mind. MORON.
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Ok then I change my mind. MORON.
More venom.. he was saying that Pujara doesn't deserve MOM becoz he got duck in 2nd innings, where as Ishant delivered in both innings since he shld be the MOM.
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you can see now. @sanjaymanjrekar Disagree with Mukul Kesavan that Pujara got short changed to accommodate Rohit in test XI. He has made Rohit a convenient scapegoat.
For those who havent seen Mukul Kesavan's article, here it is http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/915851.html some tidbits
When he passed 50 in this innings, Sanjay Manjrekar asked Sunil Gavaskar on commentary if Pujara had done enough to regain his place in the team or whether he needed to clinch it with a hundred. Gavaskar's elaborately considered opinion was that in the current set-up, Pujara needed a 150 to be in serious contention. A century and a half? What team of titans was this? And what bastion of Bradmans was Pujara trying to breach?
Meanwhile Rohit has had a free run in the middle order. He was played at No. 3 (Pujara's preferred place, where he has played nearly all his Test cricket) till the first Test in Galle, and when he failed there, Rahane was kicked upstairs so that Rohit could find a more sheltered billet at No. 5. When Pujara was grinding through his massive innings at the SSC in Colombo, the commentary team, made up of Manjrekar, Gavaskar and Aakash Chopra, came to the curious conclusion that Rohit was tailor-made for the No. 5 spot because he could "express" himself and play with the tail. Suddenly it was as if Rohit had some natural lien on the lower berth, while Pujara would have to duke it out for a top-order place with the likes of Rahul and Rahane, or even one of the settled openers.
It is a truth increasingly acknowledged that a young man possessed of an ODI berth stands a better chance of holding down a Test match place than a young man without one. Pujara doesn't play limited-overs cricket in any format for India and hasn't been able to find an IPL franchise that wants him. Rohit, in contrast, is a lion in Lilliput: the shorter the format, the better he gets. This counts against Pujara because while Rohit and others like him are constantly in the public eye because of the modern cricketing calendar, he is out of sight and mainly out of mind except when Test cricket looms on the horizon.
It is not too much to ask that selectors be self-conscious about the dangers of allowing the stardust of limited-overs cricket to bedazzle them when they make their choices for the Test team. Nor is it conspiratorial to point out that Pujara's time in the wilderness had something to do with the fact that he belongs to an unfashionable cricketing province, Saurashtra, which has great cricketing pedigree but counts for nothing in the councils of the BCCI. Mumbai, of which Rohit is a native son, counts for a great deal.
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More venom.. he was saying that Pujara doesn't deserve MOM becoz he got duck in 2nd innings, where as Ishant delivered in both innings since he shld be the MOM.
Its just sad. I was fine with either or Ishant or Pujara but Sanju Manju not understanding what that 145* meant in the context of the game is just sad.
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Not sure if Manju/Sunny are all vying for IPL commentary team by propping up Rohit-IPL-kaptaan...after all that generates more revenue and probably pays more for commentators

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Its just sad. I was fine with either or Ishant or Pujara but Sanju Manju not understanding what that 145* meant in the context of the game is just sad.
He isn't trying to make sense, just plainly downplaying Pujara's century.
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Its just sad. I was fine with either or Ishant or Pujara but Sanju Manju not understanding what that 145* meant in the context of the game is just sad.
Why would Manji even understand that? Never played a similar innings outside Ind ever.
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Manju has a twitter account. Spam that moron.
Manju has grown on me....He is articulate, backs the right players and a lot of times his comments have improved players...I think I am becoming a fan of his
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Manju is getting owned on Twitter :hysterical:
The guy is very soft spoken....why do people act like douches all the time....this is cyber bullying

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