Former Indian cricket Sanjay Manjrekar called on the leadership led by Gautam Gambhir over the selection of the team against England. India follows England 1-2 after 3 test matches and are on the verge of loss of 4.
If India loses in Manchester, it will mean defeat 3. Direct test series under Gautam Gambhir. India had previously lost 0-3 to New Zealand and 1-3 to Australia. Manjrekar, who spoke of Espncricinfo, pointed out the gambira affinity to the choice of versatile tests, instead of specialists, and called the coach for his terrible selection calls.
The former player said Gambhir’s affinity made a little sense to play the fourth sailor because they were not bowling in the first place. Manjrekar argued with his case using an example of SharDula Thakura and said that the sailor had only bowed to 27 years in 2 tests and did not raise enough goals. Similarly, Nitish Reddy bowed only 27 exceeding in 2 tests before injury.
“What is going through for everyone, despite Indian heroism with the bat, is that the selections were quite bad. We saw what Shardul Thakur was capable of in the first test match, but despite being selected again.
Why didn’t Kuldeep play?
The former dough also pointed out that the team management has never completely glued to its arguments from press conferences. Manjrekar said that the leadership was constantly talking about picking up 20 goals in every shift, but simply refused to play Kuldeep Yadav in the series. The Kuldeep, who last played against New Zealand in Bengalur, sits on a secondary dorm because of the Gambhira preference towards Washington Sundar.
“KL RAHUL AND SHUBMAN GILL HAVE TRIED THEIR BEST TO SALVAGE, BUT AND PURE BATTER IN THE TEAM WOULD HAVE HANDY, PLUS AND PURE WICHET-TAKER Playing the Whole Series Team, But It’s Going, Because IF That Was the Case, Kuldeep would play now, ”Manjrekar concluded.
India will be desperate to force a draw in the Manchester test match to be alive. If India draws this game, they will be able to live the next day and hope to match the series in the final test match in an oval that starts on July 31.
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Published:
Kingshuk Kusari
Published on:
27th July 2025
