interview. Although as a player he will always be remembered as under achiever. A player who plundered 600 runs in Test series against Pakistan in 1989 on their soil against Imran, Wasim & Waqar certainly had pedigree.
For those of you too young to remember Sanjay Manjrekar, but may have watched Sanjay Bangar's batting -- he was just like Sanjay Bangar. Slow and boring. At least Sanjay Bangar could bowl some useful overs. This guy only made it because of his illustrious father and the interview shows that his father must have really made him slog hard in practice. Frankly a very forgettable cricketer.
Re: Comparison
by Rajendra Uparkar on Jan 11, 2018 03:36 PM
I have seen batting of Sanjay Manjrekar. He was certainly a better batsman than Sanjay Bangar. In fact, he started very well in Test cricket. His high point was scoring more than 500 runs in a Test series against Pak in Pak in 1989 facing pace battery consisting of Imran, Akram, Waqar & Aquib Javed. However, he did not succeed much thereafter and with arrival of Dravid & Ganguly in 1996, he slowly and steadily faded away. Yes, he was very slow and boring in ODI. He played in world cup of 1992 and 1996 without any worthwhile contribution. As a Commentator, he never spared an opportunity to criticise Tendulkar - even went to the extent of calling him "elephant in dressing room"!
Re: Promise not delivered
by Rajendra Uparkar on Jan 11, 2018 03:43 PM
Agreed. He was technically most correct batsman after Sunil Gavaskar. He did quite well in his first overseas tour of WI in 1988 facing Bishop, Walsh etc. This was followed by yet another successful tour of Pak in 1989 where he scored more than 500 runs against Imran, Akram, Waqar & Co. He promised so much at that juncture, but failed to deliver thereafter!
Re: Promise not delivered
by Rajendra Uparkar on Jan 11, 2018 03:44 PM
Agreed. He was technically most correct batsman after Sunil Gavaskar. He did quite well in his first overseas tour of WI in 1988 facing Bishop, Walsh etc. This was followed by yet another successful tour of Pak in 1989 where he scored more than 500 runs against Imran, Akram, Waqar & Co. He promised so much at that juncture, but failed to deliver thereafter!
Re: Promise not delivered
by Rajendra Uparkar on Jan 11, 2018 03:45 PM
Agreed. He was technically most correct batsman after Sunil Gavaskar. He did quite well in his first overseas tour of WI in 1988 facing Bishop, Walsh etc. This was followed by yet another successful tour of Pak in 1989 where he scored more than 500 runs against Imran, Akram, Waqar & Co. He promised so much at that juncture, but failed to deliver thereafter!
One remembers how going into bat against the new ball in a Test in Australia in the early 90s, he exposed the volatile Srikkant instead of taking it on himself to blunt the attack with his defence. Srikkant kept attacking and was out near the end. It was obvious how Sanjay Manjrekar contrived to get to the non-striker's end to save himself.
Hes an average player with a big mouth.He has a habit of demeaning cricket legends through his commentary. As far his comment on Tendulkar well Manjerakar is not fit to tie shoelaces of Tendulkar
I got his point in realising this \'imperfect\', he is a perfectionist,wants everything in life to be perfect,but in reality it is note applicable in action world, i.e live action such as sports, he tried to be too perfect in batting considering the conditions to be stable.
In an era when mumbai had too much influence on indian cricket, he was included by another mumbai player and captain - vengsarkar - in the team. He was never good enough, and was too limited for international cricket, but was still given too much of an opportunity, even in ODIs. Can't even count the number of times he lost us matches will his exceedingly slow scoring.
