Published: Sep 08, 2015, 07:49 PM (IST)
Edited: Sep 10, 2015, 11:45 AM (IST)
New Delhi: Former India batsman Sanjay Manjrekar has hit out at India’s Team Director Ravi Shastri and Test captain Virat Kohli questioning their philosophy of aggression after the Ishant Sharma incident resulted in a one-Test ban for the lanky Delhi fast bowler. “I am a bit concerned with the Virat Kohli-Ravi Shastri partnership. That the Indians are not trying to tone their behaviour down after Australia, and have got into ugly confrontations with even a team like Sri Lanka, tells me that they don’t see these actions as misdemeanours at all,” Manjrekar wrote in his column for ESPN Cricinfo. Sanjay Manjrekar criticises Ishant Sharma for overt aggression
There was a bit of sarcasm in his article about what he believed was a misplaced sense of aggression. The 50-year-old Manjrekar, who has played 37 Tests and 74 ODIs for India between 1987 and 1996, asked as to why aggression did not win them games in Australia if that is a requisite element for winning matches. “But India may say, ‘We won the series, and this is what you need to be a winning team – a bit of aggression.’ A simple retort would be: Why didn’t aggression win you games in Australia?”
