Delhi: Former Indian cricketer and commentator Sanjay Manjrekar has released his top-10 batsmen in the middle of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. In this list, he has considered the strike rate as the most important scale and has selected the players on the basis of that. But the absence of some big names in this list has shocked everyone.
Virat Kohli did not get space
In this list of Manjrekar, Royal Challengers Bangalore’s star batsman Virat Kohli is not named, while he is in great form this season. Kohli has scored a total of 249 runs in six matches at an average of 62 and his strike rate is also 143.35. Despite this, he was excluded from this top-10, due to which cricket fans and experts are also surprised.
Dhoni also ignored
Not only Virat, but MS Dhoni, famous as former Indian captain and finisher, was also not given a place in this list. Manjrekar believes that the strike rate in T20 cricket is as important as scoring runs, and he chose the same batsmen whose strike rate has been fantastic in this season.
Manjrekar’s top-10 batsmen list
- Priyansh Arya
- Nicholas puran
- Shreyas Iyer
- Abhishek Sharma
- Phil salt
- Mitchell Marsh
- Travis Head
- Heinrich klassen
- Jose Butler
- KL Rahul
Kohli dominates in run chase
Although Manjrekar kept Kohli out of the list, the figures tell a different story. Since the 2023 season, Kohli’s performance in the run chase has been excellent. He has scored runs at an average of 72.8, which is better than any batsman. Kohli’s average reaches 164 when RCB has successfully tried the target.
Kohli was very close to records
Kohli was close to two special records in the recent match against Punjab Kings. He could become the first player to score 3500 runs in T20 cricket at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. He needed only 15 runs. At the same time, he could also become the second highest sixes batsman in IPL history by beating Rohit Sharma. But unfortunately, Kohli was dismissed for just 1 run.
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