Sanjay Manjrekar gets trolled yet again on Twitter

Former Indian cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar was the center of attraction on Twitter following his comments on Team India’s playing XI which didn’t feature a single Mumbaikar while the team was playing in Mumbai. It was the first time since 1933 that not even a single Mumbai player could make it to the Playing XI of a Test played in Mumbai.

Although Shardul Thakur was added to the squad prior to the match but he was eventually omitted from the Playing XI to mark a rare happening. Since 1933 when the Bombay Gymkhana located in South Mumbai hosted the first Test not only in the city but in the entire country no Indian team has played without a Mumbaikar in the Playing XI.

However with Ajinkya Rahane’s missing out from the squad for the remainder of the series after sustaining a freak finger injury during a practise session and Thakur who was brought in as Mohammed Shami’s cover also not included, it meant for the first time since the inception of cricket in the country, there was no representatives from Mumbai while the team played a Test in the financial capital of India.

Sanjay Manjrekar took to his Twitter handle and wrote he was pleasantly surprised with the amount of crowd in the Wankhede despite Team India going without a single local player especially in a city which is very rich in its cricketing culture.

Though he wrote that he was proud of what he saw, people didn’t take the comment too well and many fans of the Indian team decided to let him know that India’s competence at the highest level can never be judged by the ethnicity of players.

While Manjrekar might have tried to point out that it was the very first time India was playing without a member from Mumbai his reference with a huge crowd turnout was perhaps the wrong step on his part. This is not the first time that the commentator was trolled by the public as a similar type of incident took place when he indulged in an exchange with Indian Tennis ace Sania Mirza.

Not a single Mumbai player in the team, but the crowd came in large numbers even on a Monday morning to see Indian cricket win. #Proud

— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) December 12, 2016

@sanjaymanjrekar They are Indians first and Mumbaikar later. Whats with the agenda?

— Non-Flying Dutchman (@Bergkamp_esque) December 12, 2016

.@sanjaymanjrekar When will de Mumbai Mafia (Sanjay,Shastri &Sunny) will stop bragging abt Mumbai. Pls,This is India & it's a test #IndvsEng

— Ajay Srinivasan (@Ajaychairman) December 12, 2016

@sanjaymanjrekar this is not ranji trophy or Ipl match that ppl coming to watch local player, this is India's international match.

— Sandip Rathod Akki (@ImSR_07_18) December 12, 2016

@sanjaymanjrekar I think it was a test match between IndiavEng, so any Mumbaikars deir or not is as irrelevant ques as some of your stuff 🙂

— dhaval kaushik (@dhaval2013) December 12, 2016

@Venkrek @sanjaymanjrekar "Sanjay need to explore role in Marathi Movies" ???

— Payal (@Jumping_Gene) December 12, 2016

@Ajaychairman head shot.. Even in commentry he was like no rahane and never gave respect to karun Nair ! Pure worst @sanjaymanjrekar

— KAUSHIK S (@Kaushik1695S) December 12, 2016

@sanjaymanjrekar I shall die the day when you talk about something other than Mumbai ?
For God's sake, it's 'India' vs England! #jalra

— Karthik Subramanian (@SoupyLel) December 13, 2016

@sanjaymanjrekar chief, it's the Indian team ppl come to watch. #mumbai is non-partisan. #commendable

— ap (@apwitter) December 12, 2016

@sanjaymanjrekar We are all one #Nation one team.

— Dr Umesh Prabhu (@DrUmeshPrabhu) December 12, 2016

@sanjaymanjrekar For heaven sake can @StarSportsIndia bring back @bhogleharsha to commentary box ??and kick out @sanjaymanjrekar he talks shit all the time

— JAY SUTHAR (@jaysuthar07) December 14, 2016