Former Indian batter Manoj Tiwary has criticized MS Dhoni for not backing him in his international career. Tiwary is of the opinion that his career never took up despite him smashing a century in Chennai against West Indies.
In an exclusive interview with CricTracker, Manoj Tiwary has also revealed that he didn’t get any clarity from Duncan Fletcher, who was India’s Head Coach back then, as well. Upon asked as to why he wasn’t backed and why he didn’t get a longer rope in the team, Tiwary dropped a bombshell.
“I’m not the one who will be able to answer this question. I think MS Dhoni, Duncan Fletcher, and the selectors will be the ones who will be able to answer that because till now, I haven’t got any answer. Furthermore, I’m not someone who will call up the coach or the selectors or the captain at that time to answer me this,” said Manoj Tiwary.
It is just that an opportunity was not given at the right time, or the support that I needed during my playing days was not there. That will not be considered as unlucky as a cricketer, or maybe when I got injured a couple of times during my peak time. And people who have helped me in my growth have also been very kind to me,” he added.
Manoj Tiwary wants to ask a question to MS Dhoni
The 39-year-old former cricketer has revealed that he will ask MS Dhoni a question that why was he dropped from the playing XI for 14 games despite scoring a century.
“But I’ve earlier said that whenever I come across to MS Dhoni, definitely I’ll ask him what are the main reasons why I was not given the opportunity after scoring 100. So till now, I have no clue what went wrong, what were their thought process at that point of time. It is a question which needs to be asked to the ones who have made that decision and who were there at that time were taking the calls,” he added.
Tiwary played 12 ODIs and 3 T20Is for India and scored 287 and 15 runs respectively. He was a handy leg-spinner and had taken 5 wickets in ODIs
