Sanjay Manjrekar Responds To Getting Removed As Commentator By BCCI

Sanjay Manjrekar on Sunday said he always considered commentary as a great privilege and he accepts BCCI's decision to leave him out from its panel of commentators.

New Delhi: After getting removed from BCCI’s commentary panel recently, the cricketer-turned-commentator Sanjay Manjrekar on Sunday said he always considered commentary as a great privilege and he accepts BCCI's decision to leave him out from its panel of commentators. “I have always considered commentary as a great privilege, but never an entitlement,” Sanjay Manjrekar wrote on his Twitter handle. “It is up to my employers whether they choose to have me or not and I will always respect that. Maybe BCCI has not been happy with my performance of late. I accept that as a professional.”

I have always considered commentary as a great privilege, but never an entitlement. It is up to my employers whether they choose to have me or not & I will always respect that. Maybe BCCI has not been happy with my performance of late. I accept that as a professional.

— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) March 15, 2020

Manjrekar, who was also was not present in Dharamsala during the first ODI between India and South Africa, is likely to be left out of the panel for the upcoming IPL season, which has now been postponed to April 15 due to the coronavirus threat. The star commentator had invited a lot of criticism for his controversial "bits and pieces cricketer" comment on Ravindra Jadeja during World Cup 2019 and his on-air argument with Harsha Bhogle. As per reports, BCCI took Manjrekar's controversies seriously and finally decied to drop him from the commentary panel.