{"id":175552,"date":"2026-06-01T18:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=175552"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:08:35","slug":"selectors-should-pick-up-the-phone-and-apologise-sanjay-manjrekar-on-yashasvi-jaiswals-odi-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=175552","title":{"rendered":"Selectors should pick up the phone and apologise: Sanjay Manjrekar on Yashasvi Jaiswal\u2019s ODI exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71026845\">Former India international Sanjay Manjrekar has suggested that national team selectors owe Yashasvi Jaiswal an explanation for his exclusion from India\u2019s squad for its upcoming ODI series against Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the selectors\u2019 decision to go with Rohit Sharma over Jaiswal for the series on        <i>Sportstar\u2019s Insight Edge<\/i> podcast, Manjrekar said, \u201cIf they were compelled to pick Rohit Sharma for whatever reason, the first thing they\u2019ve got to do is pick up the phone and talk to Jaiswal and apologise, because this is a young player who\u2019s done tremendous things at the toughest level, in Test cricket. He\u2019s just 24 years old, in his prime, with a bright future ahead, same with Sai Sudharsan.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_embed article-block-item\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x0pK_jSkMnc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSai Sudharsan has got three fifties in his four innings (two fifties in three innings) batting at the top of the order for India, Yashasvi Jaiswal\u2019s last innings is 116 not out (against South Africa), and these guys are not playing for India. The selectors have gone with a veteran whose fitness is a question mark and who is clearly out of form,\u201d Manjrekar said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Shubman) Gill, Sai Sudharsan, and Jaiswal are tailor-made to be a top three in 50-overs cricket, and you\u2019re not backing them, and you\u2019re going to a Rohit Sharma. At least with Virat Kohli, he has a case. It cannot be the chairman of selectors, Ajit Agarkar, believing that this is the right way forward for Indian cricket. I cannot imagine him thinking this is the right way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manjrekar suggested that while both Rohit and Kohli have good recent records in ODI cricket for India (since the 2023 ODI World Cup, Rohit has scored 838 runs at an average of 45, and Kohli has scored 949 runs at an average of 59), their continued selection perhaps indicates a lack of foresight.<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/gujarat-titans-success-shubman-gill-sai-sudharsan-jos-buttler-sanjay-manjrekar-insight-edge\/article71026284.ece\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Gujarat Titans\u2019 continued success is a \u2018remarkable story\u2019: Sanjay Manjrekar<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at Shubman Gill\u2019s numbers, look at Ishan Kishan\u2019s numbers, Ruturaj Gaikwad, who is nowhere in the running, has an ODI hundred. So, if you are going to focus on Rohit and Virat so much that you ignore all the others, then there is a case. But there comes a time when you must look at the way forward for Indian cricket,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at numbers and justify the selection, the job is not about justifying the selection, it\u2019s about doing what\u2019s best for Indian cricket going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manjrekar added, \u201cThe selectors\u2019 job is not to think about only Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. They\u2019ve got to think about the 50-100 other players that are vying to play for India.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on May 27, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/yashasvi-jaiswal-sai-sudharsan-rohit-sharma-virat-kohli-india-odi-selection-sanjay-manjrekar-quotes\/article71026845.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former India international Sanjay Manjrekar has suggested that national team selectors owe Yashasvi Jaiswal an explanation for his exclusion from India\u2019s squad for its upcoming ODI series against Afghanistan. Speaking about the selectors\u2019 decision to go with Rohit Sharma over Jaiswal for the series on Sportstar\u2019s Insight Edge podcast, Manjrekar said, \u201cIf they were compelled &#8230; <a title=\"Selectors should pick up the phone and apologise: Sanjay Manjrekar on Yashasvi Jaiswal\u2019s ODI exclusion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=175552\" aria-label=\"Read more about Selectors should pick up the phone and apologise: Sanjay Manjrekar on Yashasvi Jaiswal\u2019s ODI exclusion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_JAISWAL_2_1_ASF9BNIP.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-JFu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}