As fans of Indian cricket, it is impossible for us to forget the Twitter war between Ravindra Jadeja and Sanjay Manjrekar after the latter called the Indian spinner a “pieces and pieces” player. The 31-year-old Indian cricketer had struck back during the 2019 World Cup.
“I’m not a huge fan of the bits and pieces players that Jadeja is at this point in his 50 year old cricket career. In test matches, he is a pure bowler. But in 50 year old cricket. I’d rather have a batter and a spinner, “Manjrekar had said after Sanjay Bangar hinted at Jadeja’s inclusion in the game XI after India’s league stage loss to England.
This time, Manjrekar had set fire once again when he called on India’s international players and the mainstays of the Chennai Super Kings, Piyush Chawla and Ambati Rayudu, as “low-key” cricketers. MS Dhoni CSK won the first match of the 2020 IPL against the Mumbai Indians by 5 wickets on Saturday. While Chawla produced 4-0-21-1 bowling figures, Rayudu topped the scorer at 71 of 48 and was awarded the Man of the Match title.
“Very happy for two fairly low profile cricketers, Piyush Chawla and Ambati Rayudu. Chawla was sensational with the ball. He also played the fifth and sixteenth. Rayudu … well … one of the best IPL innings of him based on the quality of the shots played! Well done CSK! “- wrote Manjrekar.
The former Indian cricketer and current commentator has caused outrage on Twitter since his tweet called out two experienced Indian international players as low-key cricketers. While Rayudu is a CSK mainstay and has played 55 ODIs for India, Chawla has 151 IPL wickets and is the third-biggest wrecker in the history of the T20 marquee league.
The Twitter outrage that followed was certainly natural.
Low profile??! Chawla has 2 world cup medals.
Rayudu has played over 50 ODIs for India. What is the high profile for cricketers who?– Binoy Sharma (@IamBXD) September 19, 2020
Dear sanjay, you should have used “understated” instead of “low profile”. Looking ahead, use the right words.
– Kalyan Krishna (@MrCrazyDon) September 19, 2020
Low profile ? @BCCI @ SGanguly99 @RayuduAmbati According to Sanjay, Rayudu and Chawala are low-key players. He has categorized the players in his mind. I think they are underrated and not low-key.
Sanjay- How do you rate the profile attached to the photo? 1 ODI and 4 Test 100s only pic.twitter.com/FPsZdTbPEj
– () (@Harsh_Tweeting) September 20, 2020
Not low-key, underrated is the right word
– Vinay Bindlish (@Bindlishv) September 20, 2020
@sanjaymanjrekar you are qualifying under the profile of a member of the world cup winning team
Strange– Mohit Ramola (@themohitramola) September 19, 2020
