Former India opener from Tamil Nadu, Murali Vijay, said that Sanjay Manjurekar’s remark was an underestimation of South Indians when the statistics of players capable of converting fifties into hundreds came up in the commentary room after Rohit Sharma scored his first century as captain in a magnificent innings in the first Test against Australia. Criticism is presented.
In the 2nd day yesterday, Australia’s debut off-spinner bowled better than his experienced colleague Nathan Lyon and took 5 wickets. As soon as that came, the night watchman dropped Ashwin and Pujara. Then he defeated the prize wicket of Virat Kohli and the debutant wicketkeeper Srikar Bharat and took 5 wickets in the debut Test.
But captain Rohit Sharma actually blasted a century in an effortless, nonchalant way. Smith was caught at slip when he scored 120 off 212 balls with 15 fours and two sixes, but a full-length swing from Cummins in the same over walked the stumps and fell a few feet away. Rohit is out.
After he scored a century, he was shown the conversion rate of fifties to hundreds, that is, the conversion rate of players who have scored at least 10 fifties in India. Statistics said Rohit Sharma has 50% and Virat Kohli 52% in converting fifties into hundreds domestically. But the Tamil Nadu player Murali Vijay tops this list. He has scored 6 fifties and 9 centuries in 30 Test matches. His conversion rate is 60%.
The table showed Mohammad Azharuddin 54.2%, Pali Umrikar 53.8%, Virat Kohli 52% and Rohit Sharma 50% next to him. Sanjay Manjurekar, who was on the commentary immediately, said, “Oh! Murali Vijay at the top, it’s amazing,” he was very surprised. But this surprising tone did not sit well with Murali Vijay.
Murali Vijay reacted to this on his Twitter page, “Some Mumbai ex players can never be appreciative of the south ! #showsomelove #equality #fairplayforall @sanjaymanjrekar @BCCI” Murali Vijay expressed concern that some ex-Mumbai players never spoke highly of South Indians.
