‘Watch Game on Mute’: Fans Slam Manjrekar Over Dhoni Criticism
Dhoni fans also suggested to start online petition to ban Sanjay Manjerkar’s commentary.
Former Indian cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar was trending on Twitter after his tweet criticising batsman MS Dhoni India vs Bangladesh match on Tuesday, 2 July.
Manjrekar has constantly questioning Dhoni’s performance in the ongoing tournament. But Dhoni fans were not happy with this and they took it to Twitter to criticise him. They even asked Star Sports to sack Manjrekar from the commentary panel.
Fans posted pictures with mute TV sets during Manjrekar’s commentary, memes started trending on social media. Not just common fans even celebs but like actor Siddharth and cricketer Shreevats Goswami also tweeted against Manjrekar.
Politician J. Anbazhagan Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Tamil Nadu also tweeted in support of MS Dhoni
Netizens even asked to start a petition to ban Manjerkar from commentary
A few weeks ago, a cricket fan from Australia wrote a letter to ICC complaining about Manjrekar’s commentary in current cricket world cup 2019 at England and Wales.
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