Sanjay Manjrekar and Sanjay Bangar analyse Indian Team’s batting lineup for ICC Cricket World Cup 2023

Sanjay Manjrekar discussed the Indian team’s batting order in the longer formats of the game. Sanjay appreciated the all format Captain Rohit Sharma for giving respect to the bowlers, who delivered the first ten overs in the ICC cricket World Cup, 2019.

Sanjay Manjrekar said that India’s top three current batsmen, Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli, can easily dominate the game and make its course according to their will, if they bat deep, and don’t lose their wickets early in the game.

Sanjay Manjrekar and Sanjay Bangar discussed India’s batting lineup

“See, fortunately for India, number one, two, and three, when Virat bats at number three, they are three very good test batters. And you might talk about 50 overs being a one-day match and white-ball cricket and all that, but the start of a 50 overs game is not like a T20 match,” discussed Sanjay Manjrekar.

“I think there are some serious test cricket skills needed, and then Rohit Sharma got these five hundred in the last World Cup. I remember him respecting the bowling in the first 10 overs. And these three guys – Gill, Rohit Sharma, and Virat – who have excellent credentials as defensive test batters, that is the game they’ll have to bring. If they don’t lose early wickets, then it’s just their game,” said Sanjay Manjrekar.

India’s former batting coach Sanjay Bangar discussed the Indian team’s multiple combinations over the years. Bangar talked about how the team management has given KL Rahul different roles as an opener as well as a middle order batsman.

“KL Rahul is a very versatile player, especially when he is played as a batter. Sometimes he has opened the innings, sometimes he has batted at number 5. So, today we got to see a lot of things in this camp. Today, we also saw different pairs of players batting together, like as we have seen in yesterday’s session – Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma were batting in pairs,” opined Sanjay Bangar.

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“Today, KL and Rohit were batting together in pairs. Thus, it means the team management might have this thought on their mind that whether KL Rahul can be utilized as an opening batsman. I don’t think this is their first option, but obviously, they want to give their best chance for that, or they want to keep an option with them,” concluded Sanjay Bangar.