Picking Ravindra Jadeja for his batting backfired on India: Sanjay Manjrekar

Having Ravindra Jadeja within the enjoying XI for the World Test Championship (WTC) remaining backfired on India, stated former Indian cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar, who additionally added that fielding Hanuma Vihari as an alternative may have helped them placed on a number of extra runs to problem New Zealand.
“If you have to look at how India went about before the game started, picking two spinners was always a debatable selection especially when the conditions were overcast and the toss was delayed by a day. They picked one player for his batting, which was Jadeja, and his left-arm spin wasn’t the reason he was picked. He was picked for his batting and that is something that I am always against,” Manjrekar stated on ESPNCricinfo.
India misplaced the match by 8 wickets to New Zealand in Southampton, struggling center and decrease order capitulations in each innings.
According to Manjrekar, having a specialist batsman as an alternative of Jadeja may have helped India submit a goal in extra of 200 for New Zealand.
“You have got to pick specialist players in the team and if they felt that the pitch was dry and turning, they would have picked Jadeja for his left-arm spin, along with Ashwin, that would have made sense. But they picked him for his batting and I think that backfired as mostly it does,” Manjrekar stated.
On the upcoming Test sequence in opposition to England, Manjrekar stated: “I hope India don’t do what England have historically done, pick somebody because there is another strength that they have and that strength might just come to good use, but very rarely it does when it’s a pressure game.”