Sanjay Manjrekar ne ek baar phir apne bold opinions se cricket duniya mein hungama macha diya hai. IPL 2025 ke beech unhone apne top 10 batters ki list share ki – aur fans ke hosh ud gaye jab unhone Virat Kohli aur MS Dhoni jaise stalwarts ko us list se completely bahar kar diya!
Manjrekar ne strike-rate ko apna main yardstick banaya, aur un batters ko hi include kiya jinka SR high hai, chahe unki consistency ya overall contribution kuch bhi ho. Virat Kohli jaise players, jo is season mein RCB ke top scorer hain, unhe bhi ignore kar diya gaya.
Kohli ne IPL 2025 mein ab tak 248 runs banaye hain 6 matches mein, strike-rate hai 143.35 aur average hai 62 – jo ki kaafi solid stats hain. Fir bhi, Manjrekar ki list mein unka naam nahi. Top par hai Nicholas Pooran (LSG) jinhone 7 matches mein 357 runs banaye hain.
“T20 cricket is as much about SR as runs. Here is the list that really matters. Top 10 batters this IPL with over 200 runs at great SR,” – Manjrekar ne X (Twitter) par likha.
Top 10 Batters according to Sanjay Manjrekar:
Priyansh Arya
Nicholas Pooran
Shreyas Iyer
Abhishek Sharma
Phil Salt
Mitchell Marsh
Travis Head
Heinrich Klaasen
Jos Buttler
KL Rahul
Virat Kohli ki IPL contribution ko nazarandaz karna kaafi logon ko khatak gaya. 2023 se lekar ab tak, Kohli ne run-chases mein kamal ka consistency dikhaya hai. Jab RCB target chase karti hai, unka average hota hai 72.8, aur successful chases mein yeh badh kar 164.0 ho jaata hai!
Recent match mein jab RCB ne PBKS ka samna kiya, Kohli ke paas ek aur record todne ka mauka tha. Agar wo 15 runs aur banate, to woh pehle player ban jaate jo T20 cricket mein ek hi venue par 3500 runs pura karte. Saath hi unhe sirf 2 sixes chahiye the Rohit Sharma ko cross karne ke liye in terms of most sixes in IPL history.
Par afsos, is match mein Kohli sirf 1 run bana kar out ho gaye, aur dono milestones unse chhoot gaye. Fir bhi, IPL ke overall history mein Kohli ka record unmatched hai. Unhone RCB ke liye 259 matches khele hain, aur banaye hain 8,253 runs – jisme 8 centuries aur 58 fifties shamil hain.
MS Dhoni ko bhi ignore kiya gaya, jinhone apne finishing skills se IPL mein kai baar matches palte hain. Fans ne Manjrekar ke list ko ‘biased’ aur ‘incomplete’ bola, aur social media par kaafi reactions aaye.
Ab dekhna yeh hoga ki kya Manjrekar apne is decision par tikte hain ya badalte hain apni list fans ke pressure mein.
