Not Jasprit Bumrah, Sanjay Manjrekar picks THIS 33-year-old as player India need badly in second Test vs England
GH News June 30, 2025 05:06 PM

New Delhi: India lost the first test of the five matches series against England by five wickets and their bowling line looked like a blunt tool throughout the match. But Jasprit Bumrah was again on top of the world bowling as well as he can and claiming five first-innings wickets. The new Test captain Shubman Gill too made an impression with a spectacular 147 to become the youngest Indian after Virat Kohli to record a century on his debut as a captain of the Test team. Irrespective of these personal feats ex-Indian cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar reckons that it might be KL Rahul at this moment that India needs the most.
KL Rahul was Indias highest scorer in the second innings of the first Test match by making a good 137. Sanjay Manjrekar in his interview with ESPN Cricinfo stated that Rahul cannot be a one-hundred wonder and has to continue his good form through the series. Manjrekar had also said that he had hopes that Rishabh Pant might have a good run throughout the rest of the games.
Rishabh Pant enjoys Test matches. He has not got enough runs. So he is hungry. I see Pant carrying his form but there is another senior batter in the team who now has got no choice but to carry his form right through the series. Indian cricket needs him badly and KL Rahul cannot be a one-hundred wonder or a one-Test-match performer Manjrekar said.
Exceptional talent in Test cricket
India has Rishabh Pant who crackled during the first Test with a 134 and a 118 and became the first-ever wicketkeeper-batter to score centuries on both innings of a Test match. Hail his performance Sanjay Manjrekar commented that scoring two hundreds in 48 hours is a feature of a very great talent.
Any batter who gets two hundreds in a Test match it takes a lot out of you mentally not so much physically getting a hundred in the first innings and 48 hours later you have the same kind of reserve to get another hundred. So that is a hallmark of an exceptional player he added