Ravindra Jadeja calls Sanjay Manjrekar 'dear friend', and Twitter is excited

Star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, recovering from a knee surgery, has revived memories of his famous old spat with TV commentator Sanjay Manjrekar with a cryptic tweet.

Jadeja on Thursday night tweeted a picture of Manjrekar at the presentation ceremony of the League Cricket match with the caption: "Watching my dear friend on screen @sanjaymanjrekar."

The 'dear friend' part in the tweet confused a lot of people, and many started wondering whether it is another round of a battle which took place three years ago when Manjrekar called Jadeja a 'bit and pieces' cricketer.


Things looked quite fine between the two last month at the Asia Cup 2022 presentation ceremony when Manjrekar prefaced his interview with this line: "First question - You are ok to talk to me? Right, Jaddu?". Jadeja then laughed and replied, "Yeah, yeah (laughs). Absolutely!!"

From 'ok to talk' to 'dear friend' was quite a long bit of a way, many thought, and they asked Jadeja about it.

But then Manjrekar's reply the next morning seemed to suggest all was fine. " Ha ha… and your dear friend looking forward to seeing you on the field soon :)," he replied to the disappointment of those who were spoiling for a fight between the two.
Jadeja will be sitting the ICC T20 World Cup 2022 to be held in October-November as he is recovering from a knee surgery.

His absence from the squad will be a big blow to Team India during their World Cup campaign in Australia, as his left-arm spin and left-handed batting in the middle order will be something that the squad will miss out.

The star all-rounder had a solid 2022 before he got injured, both with bat and ball. In nine T20Is this year, Jadeja scored 201 runs in eight innings at an average of 50.25. His best individual score was 46* this year in the format. Besides this, he took five wickets, with best figures of 1/15.