‘seriously wronged…’: Sanjay Manjrekar slams Indian selectors for dropping Shreyas Iyer from Asia Cup squad

Shreyas Iyer being absent from India’s Asia Cup squad was a shocking revelation to all his fans and followers. Chief selector Ajit Agarkar said that he was unfortunate that he missed out a spot and it wasn’t because of any reason from his own side. Speaking in a video posted on his Instagram story, Sanjay Manjrekar slammed the Indian selectors and their tendencies to select a player who had performed greatly in one format or the other.

“It’s something that I’ve seen over the years, not recently, this tendency of selectors to pick a player on performances of one format, where that person is accepted and picking him for another format. When I see a player getting rewarded for his Test match performances by a player in the T20 side, I just find that devoid of cricketing logic. It just doesn’t make any sense,” said Manjrekar.

“Shreyas not making this T20 squad of India for the Asia Cup is just shocking. Because this is a guy who was left out of the Indian game for the right reason, because they felt he wasn’t committing himself as a master of domestic cricket. But it had the desired effect on Shreyas Iyer. When he came back against England at home in a one-day series, and the way he batted, you could see that he was just batting like he’s never batted before. Didn’t put a foot wrong in that comeback series. And then carried that form into IPL cricket,” he added.

Sanjay Manjrekar claimed that the squad selections have not been great in the recent time and he claimed that there might have been a great possibility of Shreyas Iyer doing great in Asia Cup. He even said that the selectors did wrong by not naming Shreyas in the list.

“I think the selection these days of the squad and the playing 11 in Indian cricket hasn’t been great. It’s just amazing, despite the fact that India played so well in England, and there is a great possibility they might do so again in this Asia Cup. But what is wrong is wrong. And I think Iyer has been seriously wronged by the selectors,” he concluded.