The disappointment of not being picked by any franchise in the auction for this IPL season runs deep within veteran Bengal right-hander Manoj Tiwary, who feels that the whole process of bidding for certain players can often come across as an unfair procedure and he fails to understand it.
"It’s a professional world and things like these (happen)," Manoj told Times Now. "As a cricketer, you have to move forward. So, yeah, I have to keep working hard on my game and be prepared for the coming year and yeah, that’s about it."
"I have been through so many ups and downs and, you know, I keep motivating myself," he added. "I only need the close members of my family – my wife – they are all very cooperative. I don’t need anybody else to help me out on this. So basically yeah, I have been like motivating myself to deal with the situation and yeah, can’t do much about it, not in our control."
Tiwary has done his job reasonably well in the IPL over the years. Besides which, he has been a prolific run-getter at the domestic level across all formats of the game. And yet, he couldn't find a buyer as most franchises looked past the 33-year-old and preferred talented youngsters.
"I am short of answers, to be honest," he said. "You say I have been a consistent performer in first-class cricket in all the formats over the years, I even won the FBB (most stylish player) award four times in IPL the year before and despite all that, I don’t get a place in any of the teams. This is some kind of a mystery. But having said that, I actually don’t understand how the dynamics of the IPL auctions work."
Manoj is of the belief that IPL's selection process is "unfair" because many uncapped players who haven’t even played in the domestic circuit can be picked by a franchise out of nowhere.
"Yes, it’s not fair all the time, it’s unfair," he continued. "You see so many uncapped players like youngsters coming into Ranji trophy, putting up a good show and then getting a chance. But when you see players at a very young age, who don’t even make it to the Ranji trophy team or the state team in any of the formats, or even in any one format, and have no experience suddenly get picked."
"But having said that, I am not saying this out of anger whatsoever towards any of the youngsters who get the opportunity. That’s what I said, it’s a professional world where everything is possible."
