Former India player Sanjay Manjrekar believes that the high price won’t make any impact on Ishan Kishan’s performance as he is high on confidence and the faith to buy him back would make him more secure in the team.
Notable that Ishan Kishan was bought by Mumbai Indians at a whopping price of 15.25 Cr as he became the second most expensive Indian player in the history of IPL auction. Manjrekar feels that Ishan Kishan is high in confidence and he won’t feel any added pressure with the price tag.
“Ishan Kishan is at peak of his powers”- Sanjay Manjrekar
“I don’t think the price tag will affect him too much because the team has shown great faith in him. I am sure it’s something they would have told him. When we talk bout huge price tags, bringing a lot of pressure, the player feels the pressure when the team is gambling on him. Someone like Nicholas Pooran (10.75 crores) can feel pressure,” Sanjay Manjrekar spoke to Star Sports.
“We saw how Yuvraj Singh, when he was sold for 14 crores, his own confidence went down. He was on the slide, Ishan Kishan is at the peak of the powers. He is at the same franchise, I don’t think the price tag is going to affect him. I don’t think Ishan Kishan will feel the pressure at all,” he added further.
Before the auction, Mumbai Indians retained 4 players in form of Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, and Kieron Pollard. Manjrekar feels that the franchise was desperate to get Ishan back at all costs since they couldn’t retain him with a restriction of only 4 players.
“Clearly what you can see is they retained four players. Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah and Kieron Pollard. If they could retain 5, they would have retained Ishan Kishan. They were desperate to retain him but they couldn’t. But they were like, ‘Come what may, we will buy him back from the market,” Manjrekar said.
Ishan Kishan played 45 games for Mumbai Indians in 4 seasons as he scored 1133 runs with a strike rate of 138.50 which included 8 fifties. He played a key role in the 2020 season when they won their 5th IPL title.
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