{"id":655426,"date":"2026-05-07T11:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655426\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:57:09","slug":"sanjay-manjrekar-look-at-virat-kohli-sanjay-manjrekar-questions-rohit-sharma-suryakumar-yadav-fitness-standards-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655426\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanjay Manjrekar: \u2018Look at Virat Kohli\u2019: Sanjay Manjrekar questions Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav fitness standards | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u2018LookVirat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit Sharma (ANI\/AP Photos) NEW DELHI: Former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar<\/a> has drawn a sharp comparison between Virat Kohli\u2019s fitness culture and the physical standards of Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav, suggesting both batters made life harder for themselves by not maintaining elite conditioning levels as they moved into their 30s.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>Speaking on Sportstar\u2019s Insight Edge Podcast, Manjrekar said Kohli\u2019s long-lasting success across formats is directly linked to his extreme focus on fitness, while players like Rohit and Surya may have suffered because they failed to match those standards.\u201cTake a leaf out of Virat Kohli\u2019s book,\u201d Manjrekar said. \u201cVirat is not in his early 30s and he had tough times in T20 cricket, but look at him this season. And what is the one difference between Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav and Virat Kohli\u2019s fitness?\u201d <\/p>\n

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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi India debut: The calls are getting louderManjrekar said Suryakumar still possesses the experience and skillset to succeed, but believes fitness has become the missing piece.\u201cSo the mental side of things is there. Just get your body to support your intent,\u201d he explained.\u201cI thought Rohit Sharma as well fell off and waned off because he didn’t take care of his fitness as much as he should have. He just made things a little more difficult. I see that with Surya as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Go into extreme fitness like Virat\u2019<\/p>\n

Manjrekar repeatedly pointed towards Kohli\u2019s discipline as the benchmark modern cricketers should follow.\u201cTake your fitness levels to the next level. Go into extreme fitness like Virat does,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen Virat gets any success, the first thing he attributes that to is his physical fitness.\u201dAccording to Manjrekar, T20 cricket becomes increasingly unforgiving once players cross 30 if physical conditioning drops even slightly.He described Suryakumar\u2019s recent decline as one of the most fascinating stories in T20 cricket after years of sustained brilliance.\u201cHe and Jos Buttler ruled T20 batting,\u201d Manjrekar said. \u201cBut then this sudden drop of form came\u2026 the consistency of brilliance was followed by this consistent failure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Which player do you think prioritizes fitness the most?<\/p>\n

The former India batter believes age and declining fitness may be affecting Surya\u2019s trademark hand-eye coordination, especially for his unconventional shots behind square.\u201cI\u2019m certain about one thing, his fitness is not what it should be,\u201d Manjrekar said. \u201cIf I was his personal coach, I would only get him to be lighter on his feet, stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit Sharma (ANI\/AP Photos) NEW DELHI: Former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar has drawn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,316919,316916,316917,316912,25035,316914,85,316913,316918,316915,84466],"class_list":["post-655426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-fitness-culture","tag-impact-of-fitness-on-cricket-performance","tag-kohli-vs-rohit-fitness-comparison","tag-rohit-sharma-fitness-standards","tag-sanjay-manjrekar","tag-sanjay-manjrekar-cricket-commentary","tag-sports","tag-suryakumar-yadav-fitness","tag-t20-batting-consistency","tag-t20-cricket-fitness","tag-virat-kohli-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655426","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=655426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}