That’s not the case with Sanjay Manjrekar. For a very young generation of cricket followers, active on social media, it’s easy to reduce Manjrekar’s chequered international career to cold statistics and mock him with numbers. However, for a different generation, Manjrekar wasn’t just what those numbers say. They hide the fact that in the late 80s and early 90s, Sanjay Manjrekar was arguably one of the most technically-accomplished batsmen in the world of cricket. In his approach to technically-correct batsmanship, he was second to none of his generation. Following a brave hundred in India’s Caribbean tour in 1988-89, his consistent high scoring in Pakistan (1989-90) — against an attack led by Wasim, Waqar, Imran and Aaqib — earned him the man-of-series award in the test series in which Sachin Tendulkar made his debut.