‘Roco, Stop The’: Former India cricketers put Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli together in the test together; ‘At all comparison’ says. Cricket news
New Delhi: As Team India originates in a new era in Test cricket without its two biggest icons-Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma-East cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar have urged the cricketing community to stop behaving evenly in the red-ball format.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!Considering the comment of the new Test captain Shubman Gill, he would feel the pressure not to be Kohli and Rohit in the England series, with Manjrekar on Instagram to share a clear evaluation.
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He said, “It provoked the bee in my bonnet, which is for a while. It is not so much about the statement, but the fact that Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli clubbed together,” he said.The former India batsman claimed that while comparison can be valid in white-ball cricket, Kohli and Rohit are in a very different league in Test cricket. He said, “We also have a word for them, stop. I can understand it in white-ball cricket … but when it comes to red-ball cricket, there is no comparison between the two,” he said.Supporting his stance with numbers, Manjrekar pointed to Kohli’s major record in the Army (South Africa, England, New Zealand, Australia) countries. “Virat Kohli received 12 hundreds in army countries.He said, “And I said, he had gone to England, he must have fallen in the average 30s,” he said, before finishing with a blunt punchline: “So, when it comes to red-ball cricket … then I say, stop, stop it.”
Manjrekar’s comments have discussed the legacy of India’s red ball and the adverse effects of two modern veterans of Indian cricket.
