All Sanjay Manjrekar wanted from the crowd who were booing the newly-appointed Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya was to realize that their boorish behaviour targeting a “big stage player” was unfair. Pandya was jeered at every venue after he was handed captaincy by MI, signaling a controversial end to the successful and popular Rohit Sharma’s tenure at the helm. The whole episode had a deep-level impact on Pandya.
while conducting the toss at the Wankhede during a home match of MI Manjrekar did interject, but it only led to a meme fest by the insensitive social media trolls.
Manjrekar said, “What a turnaround for Hardik Pandya. In IPL, there were people jeering and booing him, and I told them to behave because this is a big-stage player.”
He further said, “We have seen that umpteen times, wickets of Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, and right at the end, Rabada, so he was a champion, and no surprise to see him flourish on the big stage.”