‘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.

Here’s something interesting about Dhoni -. 41 off 87 balls v spin this WC. But in the warm up games 69 off 56 balls v spin. That tells me it’s mental too. He does not put his wicket on the line as much in the big games.#ICCCWC2019

— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) July 2, 2019

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.

I'm praying #manjrekar has a toe niggle.

— Siddharth (@Actor_Siddharth) July 2, 2019

Sanjay manjrekar seems more happy seeing dhoni out than the players 🤷‍♂️ #BANvIND #WC19

— Shreevats goswami (@shreevats1) July 2, 2019

When Other Batters Hit 4 or 6

Sanjay Manjrekar : That's a Perfect Shot

When Dhoni hits 4 or 6

Sanjay Manjrekar : That was a Bad Ball from Bowler

🚶🚶#INDvBAN

— ꃶ Aяανιиd Messi 🇦🇷 ꃶ (@Messi_ArvinD) July 2, 2019

I am a big Dhoni fan but I’m also a rational person. This I must say if India loses this match, Dhoni must come forward, be brave, face the world and take the the captaincy back from Virat Kohli and lead from the front. Hail India. Hail Dhoni

— Ra_Bies 2.0 (@Ra_Bies) July 2, 2019

Ppl like #sanjaymanjrekar are saying Dhoni is not hitting boundaries. India's batting lineup does have a long tail. You have to keep that in mind before criticising Dhoni. If u can't see how India's tail is scoring, then its ur hate against Dhoni is overtaking ur cricket sense

— Praveen Mani (@pravi_m) July 2, 2019

Politician J. Anbazhagan Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Tamil Nadu also tweeted in support of MS Dhoni

How to send out #SanjayManjrekar out of this World Cup 🤔

Should we need to call Bumrah ?

The most irritating commentator we’ve seen in Cricket.

— J Anbazhagan (@JAnbazhagan) July 2, 2019

Sanju Manju is so bad that even fans are muting @StarSportsIndia Hindi.

Let's try this. The next time Sanjay Manjrekar comes on commentary, Mute commentary, take a pic. Tweet with #SackManjrekar

If you don't like this senseless commentary do it. RT & Spread too. #IndvBan pic.twitter.com/mOP0K9lmJp

— Prabhu (@Cricprabhu) July 2, 2019

Netizens even asked to start a petition to ban Manjerkar from commentary

Can a petition be started to ban Sanjay Manjrekar from doing the commentary #INDvBAN

— Krishna Pasumarthi (@KrsnaP79) July 2, 2019

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.

I am unahappy with Sanjay Manjerekar's commentary. I wrote to ICC about it. #CWC19 pic.twitter.com/KzgqtLHuzU

— Addie Kumar (@adityeah) June 22, 2019