sanjay manjrekar former indian cricketer who played over 100 international matches for the country is one of the most soughtafter cricket commentators today looking composed and relaxed ahead of the recent india vs australia t20 match at chinnaswamy stadium he got chatty with us about cricket and more excerptspost the pulwama tragedy talks are on the stop all cricket matches between india and pakistan do you think that such issues should impact any sport is sports bigger than political differenceswe need to understand that sports is a small part of a much larger and infinitely more important entity the nation hence as a good citizen of india i will respectfully obey whatever the government decides this was my belief as a player as well i know cricket is like a religion in india but it is still just a sport sports must take a backseat in matters like this which decide the future course of the country and its people lives are at stake here i would not want to comment on any other followup questions as it is an extremely sensitive issueyou have close to three million followers on twitter whats your take on social media as a platform to connect with fans and followersi joined twitter when it was growing as a platform and found it a doubleedged sword its got tremendous power and for people like me it becomes a place where you can say exactly what you want to and not get misquoted by people like you laughs and that is where its an advantage but since it is at your disposal there is a tendency to tweet something that may not be correct especially if you are high strung or emotional its hard to articulate given the restricted word count luckily i have learnt how to use it over time social media is a parallel world that we need to be in touch withany suggestions on how sportspersons can handle such a platformsportspersons are not great public speakers they become celebrities because of their skill so it is important to have a team that manage and take care of the messages you send out because even if you think your post is harmless and that you have articulated it well it might be misconstrued luckily the advantage with such messages is that it has a very short life and people move to the next controversial tweet smilesdo you miss playing cricketno not at all i have had my fill my last few years in test cricket were not very happy ones due to which i was fed up of the game and quit the funny thing is that bat manufacturers keep sending me bats and i keep telling them that i retired long back laughs i get nostalgic when i hold my old bat because it was a huge part of my life but i dont miss cricketwho do you admire from the current lineup of cricketersvirat kohli because of his incredible selfconfidence he