Sanjay Manjrekar’s ‘Particular person Brilliance’ Retort Amid Virat Kohli Strike Fee Row

Former Indian cricket crew batter Sanjay Manjrekar identified that Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s success within the ongoing IPL 2025 may be attributed to teamwork and never any particular person brilliance. In his column for Hindustan Occasions, Manjrekar wrote that RCB had six completely different Participant Of The Match winners within the seven wins – a indisputable fact that proves that they’ve clicked as a crew. Up to now, RCB have been overly depending on huge names like Virat Kohli, AB De Villiers and Chris Gayle. Nevertheless, even with Virat performing brilliantly this yr, Manjrekar wrote that their teamwork is a good signal.

“For starters, within the seven wins up to now, RCB have had six completely different gamers as Participant-of-the-Match with Krunal Pandya receiving this honour twice. Principally, RCB have had many alternative heroes by way of the season and that is all the time an ideal signal to search for in a crew; a crew that is not depending on a few gamers to win matches,” Manjrekar wrote within the column.

“Particular person brilliance can win you some matches however to win persistently you want a number of infusions of brilliance by way of completely different sources. Prefer it’s in different codecs, it is the bowling assault that units a crew aside; sure, batting is essential, however this time round RCB’s bowling unit has been in prime type,” he added.

Manjrekar discovered himself in a little bit of controversy for his feedback on Virat’s strike price and that resulted in Virat’s brother – Vikas – taking a dig at him on social media. The previous India star doubled down on his evaluation and mentioned that though media tends to reward batters, RCB bowlers have been the actual heroes.

“Our media tends to give attention to the batter rather a lot, however that is one other working example the place the batters are within the highlight nevertheless it’s the bowlers who get the factors. Krunal Pandya has been Participant-of-the-Match twice for RCB this season, however what number of occasions has he actually made the headlines or basked within the limelight?”