Manjrekar and Vaughan involved in Twitter banter over England Test team

Dixit Bhargav | 31/01/2019
Manjrekar and Vaughan involved in Twitter banter

Manjrekar and Vaughan involved in Twitter banter: Both the former cricketers seemed to be at odds with each other.

Former India batsman Sanjay Manjrekar and former England captain Michael Vaughan have been involved in an elongated banter on social media platform Twitter regarding England cricket team’s recent performance.

It is worth mentioning that England are currently playing a Test series in Windies. After reaching there as the favorites, England were shown the harsh reality as the hosts defeated them by 381 runs to go 1-0 up in the three-match series.

From being bundled out for 77 in 30.2 overs to conceding a 295-run partnership in for the seventh wicket, it had unequivocally been one of England’s worst performance in Test matches in the recent years.

Post the match, Manjrekar highlighted England Coach Trevor Bayliss’ ‘flawed thinking and approach’ after the latter claimed this to be all-rounder Sam Curran’s ‘first bad game’ in the given format for England.

Manjrekar’s criticism didn’t go down well with Vaughan, who laid emphasis on the fact that the same ‘flawed thinking’ had defeated India 4-1 last year.

Giving the impression of not wanting to continue the argument, Manjrekar insisted on resting his case for he believed that such a reactions from Vaughan further spoke about the ‘flawed mindset’.

Not agreeing with Manjrekar over his statement, Vaughan then mentioned that what England did at Barbados was not ‘flawed thinking’ but a ‘mistake’. Taking a sly dig at the Indian team, Vaughan didn’t hesitate to point out that even the Indian team had committed a mistake by not playing all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja in the second Test of India’s tour of Australia at Perth.

Meanwhile, Manjrekar had shared his ‘more elaborate’ piece on English cricket on his Twitter account. The 53-year old then tried to deviate Vaughan’s attention to the same saying that it covers more than just selection issues.

While Vaughan hasn’t replied on the same as of now, Manjrekar posted another tweet resounding his opinion regarding ‘bits and pieces’ players.

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England Michael vaughan Sanjay Manjrekar

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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