Twitter urges the selectors to pick Manish Pandey for Asia Cup

Team India’s no. 4 conundrum in the One-Day Internationals has not solved yet. With the World cup less than a year away, they will have to at least a short-term solution to it and play with a settled side now. Meanwhile, Manish Pandey showed displayed great skills with the bat in the recently concluded quadrangular series. He was the captain of the India B team which won the tournament on the back of some brilliant show by Pandey himself.

He was consistent right through the series while batting at 4 and led the team from the front. Pandey amassed a massive 306 runs in four matches and amazingly wasn’t dismissed even once. This proves that he has also emerged as the finisher and made sure in all the matches that he stayed unbeaten for the team until the end. Not that he played slowly and saved his wicket, the 28-year-old smashed the runs at a strike-rate of 101 and never let the run-scoring go down.

Pandey hasn’t played an ODI this year

Manish Pandey has so far played 22 ODIs for India and has scored 432 at an average close to 40 and a decent strike-rate of 93. But his inconsistency has proved to be his undoing which led to the selectors dropping him from the team late last year. He is yet to play an ODI this year and his recent performances might make the selectors think of him straight away.

Pandey also has a competition from Ambati Rayudu and Kedar Jadhav who played in the quadrangular series. The former also showed superb resilience for India A and scored 187 runs at an average of 62 while Jadhav comes into the contention right away as he was injured during the IPL and wasn’t dropped from the team.

The selectors are set to pick the squad for the Asia Cup on September 1 and Twitter is overwhelmed with the performance of Pandey. They want him to be back in the India squad as the selectors will look to build a strong team looking at the mega event next year.

Here’s how Twitter reacted:

@cricketaakash should Manish Pandey will get a place in Asia cup squad after the knocks in quadrangular series playing for INDIA B.#AapKiVani on #AakashVani

— Msd Madhusudan (@MadhusudanMsd) August 30, 2018

INDIA B Captain Manish Pandey has been in sublime form throughout the Quadrangular A series, without getting dismissed . So , I’ll not be surprised if he’ll be picked for the Asia Cup 2018 .

— Sharat Chandra Bhatt (@imsharatbhatt) August 30, 2018

@BCCI waiting for "Mayan Agarwal" & "Manish Pandey" to score 300 in 50 overs domestic & 500 in domestic test match it seems!@im_manishpandey @mayankcricket

— Prashanth Kumar A (@Prashanthbmw) August 30, 2018

Manish Pandey has again hit form. Ye aadmi World Cup tak na sahi se team me aayega, na team se jayega

— Gappistan Radio (@GappistanRadio) August 29, 2018

In ODI Manish Pandey is the best middle order batsman. Since Yuvi and Raina are not present.

— Gabbar Singh.. (@GABBAR_ReBorn) August 29, 2018

Manish Pandey aur Kedar Jadhav dono ODI me wapas aa jaao ab 🤗 Tum dono ke bina India ODI me nahi jeet sakti. 🙏 #ManishPandey #ENGvIND #indavausa https://t.co/lv3RXad51B

— Madam Jadeja 💃 (@madam_jadeja) August 29, 2018

@im_manishpandey Is In Fine Touch For India B In Quadrangular Series! Will He Book A Place In Indian Side As A Middle Order Batsman! #ManishPandey !!!!

— Phani Teja 🇮🇳 (@PHANI_98495) August 29, 2018

Well Played @im_manishpandey scored 784 runs in his last 11 List-A innings at an average of 261.33 with six half-centuries and two centuries.
I hope u Back in Indian cricket team..
All The Best… Next..@im_manishpandey .@IrfanPathan pic.twitter.com/CwH1JpWoCi

— Mohsen Khan (@MohsenK96901437) August 29, 2018

Manish Pandey eyes to seal a spot in the national team#ManishPandey #Cricket #TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/rMDHI4il3x

— India Fantasy (@india_fantasy) August 30, 2018

This one for Indian cricket selectors (if they exist):Mayank Aggarval and Manish Pandey both should be in Indian cricket playing XI team and so is Bhuvanendra Kumar. Why are they playing some A or B teams. Captain Kohli: if you are selector+coach+captain, be fair to these players

— Dr. Prasad S. Thenkabail, PhD (@Thenkabailwater) August 30, 2018

@im_manishpandey bro jabtak @imVkohli ka chamcha nahi banoge tab tak team me jagah nahi milegi …jaise ki @hardikpandya ko deklo 😂😂😂

— Ryan chris (@ImRyan95) August 30, 2018

Good to see the India B captain, Manish Pandey not getting dismissed throughout the tournament & very happy to see him score a lot of runs after a lean period in this seasons IPL. Very happy for Pandey & India B, as with the win, it shows that, India has real talent in store.

— Ram (@ram574) August 30, 2018

When Manish Pandey was in top form he was not picked for 4 years.
In many games, he played well and was dropped in the next game without reason by Dhoni.
He was picked in the T20 side. He is not a T20 player, but a better ODI player. Looked like someone wanted him to fail.

— silent_crusader (@silent_crusade1) August 29, 2018

@im_manishpandey play like this you surely get place in odi WC2019.manish look what Symonds did for Australia in 2003 and yuvraj Singh in 2011WC they played crucial role in middle order.Hope you will do the same for India.

— Manikandan Mani (@manik31071989) August 29, 2018

What a fantastic series for @im_manishpandey..!! Led from the front and fabulous knocks in every game.. A strong comeback signal in ODIs squad.. Congratulations..!!…#QuadrangularSeries

— Nishant Shekhar (@iamnishant_ns) August 29, 2018

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