Thread by @gauravsabnis

Listening to Agarkar, Gavaskar, Manjrekar together on Hindi commentary, it is not at all difficult to guess that Manjrekar is the only one married to a Marathi woman. 😂😂

Shuddha Marathi mein Hindi he speaks that Sunny or Ajit could never get away with. 🤣🤣

#INDvAUS

I fully support Manjrekar Hindi btw.

We Marathi people are 100 million strong with 500+ years of Hindi/Urdu in our history.

No one can tell us our Hindi is any less authentic than bisht Hindi. 💪

And yeah, in Marathi Hindi, we say tu instead of tum, if you're one of the aap-hum people who choose that as your hill to die on.

I honestly enjoy Manjrekar's Hindi commentary more than his English commentary.

Last bit is unnecessarily harsh!

Manjrekar was a very good batter!

I'm old enough to remember 1989. He scored centuries in WI & Pak vs Marshall, Ambrose, Walsh, Bishop, Imran, Akram, Wawar, Qadir.

Some respect please.

https://twitter.com/atif_icial/status/1634434637358325762?t=XYJUyK1hpXp1DnqRa0MoYw&s=19

Sanjay Manjrekar scored over 500 runs in 4 test matches in Pakistan against Imran, Wasim, Waqar, Qadir at their best.

Probably the most underrated test series batting performance of all time.

One of the best cricket books you'll ever read. Very honest. And he wrote it himself. He was a good writer even as a player.

https://twitter.com/shrixyz/status/1634438861219835910?t=GdnAVrxworbLSipm1yxZhg&s=19

I really don't get the Sanju manju hate on Twitter.

I do find his English commentary a tad prolix.

But he's always been a very fair and insightful thinker, writer, player. Even in the Jadeja episode, he did or said nothing wrong. In fact he took the high road.

And just generally, Sanjay has always struck me as a nice, thoughtful, articulate, and kind cricket commentator. He's never unnecessarily harsh or combative. Nor is he into random stunts.

And he sings and writes very well!

Sunny does not look 73 years old! Dude has aged so well!

The ubiquity of Sunil Gavaskar has ironically led to us not fully appreciating the ubiquity of Sunil Gavaskar. We will miss him so intensely when he's gone! For 52 years now, he's been a permanent fixture in Indian cricket in one role or another. And is an automatic GOAT player.

There is no India All Time XI that doesn't start with the name Sunil Gavaskar.

In Jamaica, Antigua & of course Trinidad, I met so many people talking in reverential tones about Sunny. The mutual admiration society of Gavaskar & the West Indies is so sweet and wholesome. People talk fondly of when they met him in some hotel or restaurant.

@rohangava9

This chatty uncle in Trinidad reminiscing about the golden years of West indies cricket said "our boys rolled everyone over. But not the little master.i know you now call Sachin the little master. But for us, Sunny is the little master. Couldn't get him out at all!"

Another uncle said "Brian is our boy but Sunny is also our boy".

The Sunny-Trinidad love story is especially sweet. For many Indian origin Trini folks struggling to define their identity in the 70s, the little master was extra special. He just took it all. It was not easy.

Oooh I so long to return to the Caribbean and talk cricket with uncles who are always excessively generous with the beer in their cooler.

Watching cricket in the Caribbean is one of my favorite things ever.