Published 18:19 IST, March 14th 2020
Chennai Super Kings troll Sanjay Manjrekar over his ouster from commentary panel
Chennai Super Kings hilariously trolled Sanjay Manjrekar after BCCI had dropped the veteran commentator from their commentary panel. He won't feature in IPL
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Chennai Super Kings (CSK) took a hilarious dig at Sanjay Manjrekar after he was reportedly removed from BCCI's commentary panel on Saturday. reason behind CSK making fun of Manjrekar is simple. He had labelled one of ir star all-rounders Ravindra Jadeja as a 'bits and pieces' cricketer during a part of his World Cup 2019 analysis for which he was criticised by both Jadeja as well as cricket fans.
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'Bits and pieces': CSK
Taking to micro-blogging site, Chennai Super Kings expressed happiness over veteran commentator's ouster from IPL by saying that one will need to hear audio feed in bits and pieces anymore. This comment was made with reference to former cricketer's commentary.
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Even fans came forward and joined CSK in mocking cricketer-turned-commentator/analyst.
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BCCI drops Sanjay Manjrekar from its commentary panel
Sanjay Manjrekar was part of International Cricket Council’s (ICC) commentary panel for many major ICC events ever since he took up commentary gig post his retirement in 1996. While Manjrekar is one of most experienced commentators in world, former Mumbai captain has been involved in quite a few controversies over years. Meanwhile, apart from a statement, particular reason has been released by any official statement as to why Sanjay Manjrekar was dropped.
While issuing a statement to reporters, a BCCI source simply said that esteemed former cricketer is excluded from its commentary panel because of fact that BCCI are t happy with his work. It is to be ted that BCCI is also planning to exclude Sanjay Manjrekar from upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL 2020) season panel, should tournament go ahead with its postponed date of April 15.
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18:19 IST, March 14th 2020