Former cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar has slammed India’s batsmen for not possessing strong enough techniques to cope with the swinging ball in the recently concluded five-match Test series in England.
“It wasn’t temperament that was letting these batsmen down,” Manjrekar said at the Dilip Sardesai Memorial lecture at the Cricket Club of India. “In South Africa and in England it was purely a technical problem, specifically defensive technique.”
Manjrekar heaped praise on India’s bowlers for saving face. “Interestingly, it was the batting that let India down this time (in England), the bowlers kept getting India back in the match and the batsmen kept letting those chances slip,” he said.
