Sanjay Manjrekar comes up with a big statement on Ravindra Jadeja after the patch-up between the two

Senior Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja played an inning of ended up as the highest run-scorer for the Indian team. He played a match-defining knock of 35 runs off 29 balls with two boundaries and two sixes to his name. Other than this, he also stitched a half-century partnership for the fifth wicket with a player of the match Hardik Pandya. Their partnership eventually helped India to win the match by a margin of five-wicket against the men in green.

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Apart from his brilliant inning, Jadeja also made it to the headlines of social media for another reason. Actually, Ravindra Jadeja shares a history with former Indian batter and commentator Sanjay Manjrekar. Eventually, an interesting conversation between Manjrekar and Jadeja went viral over social media.

Actually, Manjrekar asked Jadeja in the post-match talk, “You are ok to talk with? Jadddu?” in reply to which Jadeja laughingly said, “Yeah, Yeah! Absolutely”.

This conversation made headlines because a few years back Manjrekar made a big statement about Jadeja and called him, “a player in bits and pieces”. The 33-year-old all-rounder responded to that with a social media post targeting the veteran commentator.

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It wasn’t a wild card because Pakistan was bowling two spinners - Sanjay Manjrekar on Ravindra Jadeja

Recently, Manjrekar has come up with a fresh statement about Jadeja. He actually feels that promoting Jadeja to the top of the batting order was not a ‘gamble at all.

“Yes. Very good move and I loved it. And I don’t think it was a gamble. It wasn’t a wild card because Pakistan was bowling two spinners, one leg spinner, and a left-arm spinner, Mohammad Nawaz and Shadab. So, they were going to bowl for a while and that’s what Babar did,” said Manjrekar in a show of Sports18.

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“It was like they bowed one over spell or two over spell. A left-hander coming in would just make things a little difficult. The ball also, the pitch looked green, but the ball was turning, so the spinners were going to make an impact. So that was pretty good,” he added later.