{"id":447222,"date":"2026-01-30T11:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447222\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:19:08","slug":"only-one-world-cup-and-thats-50-overs-sanjay-mankrekar-says-t20-version-doesnt-deserve-the-same-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447222\/","title":{"rendered":"Only one World Cup and that\u2019s 50-overs: Sanjay Mankrekar says \u2018T20 version\u2019 doesn\u2019t deserve the same status"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 10th edition of the 20-overs World Cup starts in eight days, but Sanjay Manjrekar<\/a> reckons the tournament doesn\u2019t carry the same importance or significance as the 50-overs World Cup. For Manjrekar, who was part of India\u2019s World Cup campaigns in 1992 and 1996, appearing in 11 matches, there\u2019s only one World Cup: the 50-overs one. The fact that the T20 World Cup takes place every two years, compared to the 50-overs World Cup every four, Manjrekar wants the T20 version to return to its original name.<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar (PTI)<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, the \u2018Cricket World Cup\u2019 will always be the 50 overs World Cup. The T20 version, held every two years, must not be given the same status as a World Cup that comes once every 4 years. I prefer the original name for it – The WorldT20,\u201d Manjrekar posted on X.<\/p>\n

Manjrekar\u2019s remarks come at a time when the ODI format is facing an existential crisis. Now considered the least interesting of the three formats, with Tests and T20Is played more often, there is a belief that the 2027 World Cup in South Africa could well be the last ODI World Cup ever held. Despite the 2031 World Cup scheduled to take place in India and Bangladesh, five years is a long way to go.<\/p>\n

When did World T20 become the T20 World Cup?<\/p>\n

The term \u2018World T20\u2019 was used for the first six editions \u2013 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016 \u2013 before the tournament was rechristened the T20 World Cup after the 2021 edition, held in the UAE after a five-year gap.<\/p>\n

Manjrekar\u2019s sentiment echoes Rohit Sharma<\/a>\u2019s, as the former India captain, despite winning the T20 World Cup, has always held the 50-overs World Cup in the highest regard. Which is perhaps why India\u2019s loss to Australia in the 2023 World Cup final still stings. Under Rohit, India went on a marauding run of form, winning 10 games in a row and lighting up the entire country. October 2023 felt nothing short of a festival, but when India stumbled at the final hurdle, Rohit went almost a month without talking about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have always grown up watching the 50-over World Cup, and to me, that was the ultimate prize. We have worked all these years for that World Cup\u2026 and it is disappointing, right? If you don’t get through it, and you don’t get what you want, what you’ve been looking for all this while, what you were dreaming of, you get disappointed, and you get frustrated as well at times,\u201d he said after a brief silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 10th edition of the 20-overs World Cup starts in eight days, but Sanjay Manjrekar reckons the tournament…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,231756,125802,25035,85,48682,21418],"class_list":{"0":"post-447222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-manjrekar","12":"tag-odi-world-cup","13":"tag-sanjay-manjrekar","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-t20-world-cup","16":"tag-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}