Former Indian cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar has time and again been criticized by Indian fans for his obnoxious opinions about his country’s cricketers. Manjrekar had even taken a sly dig on Indian ace player Sania Mirza when she tweeted about he??r numero uno spot in the Tenni?s Doubles Ranking.

Manjrekar was again in the news when he recently said that Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin doesn’t make it to the category of ‘Legends of the game.’ He had mentioned that the off-spinner hadn’t bagged any five wickets haul against South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia (SENA).

“‘All-time great’ is the highest praise & acknowledgement given to a cricketer. Cricketers like Don Bradman, Sobers, Gavaskar, Tendulkar, Virat etc are all time greats in my book. With due respect, Ashwin not quite there as an all-time great yet,” Manjrekar had commented.

‘All- time great�?is the highest praise & acknowledgement given to a cricketer. Cricketers like Don Bradman, Sobers, Gavaskar, Tendulkar, Virat etc are all time greats in my book. With due respect, Ashwin not quite there as an all-time great yet. 🙏#AllTimeGreatExplained😉

— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) June 6, 2021

Tamil Nadu opener Abhinav Mukund has come to the fore to defend his state teammate and stated that he ‘respectfully disagrees’ with Manjrekar.

Mukund agreed that though Ashwin hasn’t taken a fifer against SENA, he has had an indelible impact against them.

“I read an article today where Sanjay Manjrekar said that ‘I disagree that he is a legend of the game’. I have to respectfully disagree with Mr. Manjrekar and say he is a legend of the game because he holds several world records. The accusation towards him is that he’s never performed in SENA countries. But I think he had a fantastic tour to Australia. If you look at it that way, and if you just look at the number of five-wicket-hauls he’s taken and what an impact he’s been to as a leader, he’s probably one of the legends of the game in my opinion at least,” Mukund told stand-up comedian Sorabh Pant on his YouTube channel.

Meanwhile, Ashwin would be gearing up for the World Test Championship (WTC) final clash against New Zealand in England starting from June 18.

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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced the schedule and squads ??for the Duleep Troph?y which will start off the 2017-18 Indian domestic season.

Lucknow and Kanpur will be the venues for the four matches in this Duleep Trophy. The tournament, which wasn’t included in the domestic season by the BCCI, until yesterday returned after Sourav Ganguly‘s letter and CoA’s involvement.

The tournament which will be played from September 7th to 29th will see three teams �?India Red, India Green, and India Blue. Abhinav Mukund, Parthiv Patel and Sure??sh Raina have been named ??as captains respectively.

Like last year, the tourname??nt featuring 45 c??ricketers will be played with the pink ball and under floodlights.

Schedule:

Match 1: India Red vs India Green from September 7-10
Match 2: India Red vs India Blue from September13-16
Match 3: India Blue vs India Green, September 19-22
Final: September September 25-29

Squads:

India Red

Abhinav Mukund (c), Priyank Panchal, Sudip Chatterjee, Ishank Jaggi, Ambati Rayudu, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant, Baba Indrajith, K Gowtham, Karn Shar?ma, Basil Thampi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Ashok Dinda, Rahul Singh, CV Milin??d.

India Green

Parthiv Patel (c & wk), Murali Vijay, R Samarth, P Chopra, Shreyas Iyer, Karun Nair, Ankit Bawne, Shahbaz Nadeem, Parvez Rasool, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Siraj, Sidharth Kaul, Mayank Dagar, Nitin Saini, Aniket Choud??hary.

India Blue

Suresh Raina (c), Samit Gohel, KS Bharat, AR Easwaran, M??anoj Tiwary, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Ishan Kishan (wk), Jayant Yadav, Bharghav Bhatt, KM Gandhi, Isha??nt Sharma, Ankit Rajpoot, S Kamat, Jaydev Unadkat.

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On Tuesday, the BCCI announced a 16-man squad for the first two Tests of the upcoming series against Australia, starting from 23rd February ?in Pune?.

The selectors have retained the same Indian squad that had featured in the one-off Test against Bangladesh in Hyderabad. Middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma, who has be??en away from cricket since October 2016 due to injury was not consid??ered for the selection.

India’s squad: Virat Kohli (c), Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Ka??run Nair, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, ?Ravindra Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Abhinav Mukund, Hardik Pandya

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On Wednesday (31st January), the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the Indian squ??ad for the one-m??atch Test series against Bangladesh.

The only test between the two teams will be played from Febru??ary? 9th in Hyderabad.

Meanwhile, wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel, who played exceptionally well in the Test series against England has been dropped from the team and Wriddhiman Saha, who suffered an injury after the second Test against E??ngland has bee?n called back.

Also, left-handed batsman Abhinav Mukund, who made his Test debut against West Indies in 2011, has once ??again been included in the 16 member squad.

List of players in Indian squad:

Virat Kohli (c), Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Karun Nair, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Umesh Yadav, ??Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Amit Mishra, Abhinav Mukund, Hardik Pandya

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