Former India batsman Sanjar Manjrekar (left) has a word with his first Test captain, Dilip Vengsarkar during the launch of his book Imperfect at a city hotel yesterday. pic/bipin kokate

Dilip Vengsarkar revealed yesterday that he had to fight hard to include Sanjay Manjrekar in the Indian team for the 1988-89 tour of the West Indies. "One of the five selectors, who was known to be a poor player of fast bowling, expressed his unwillingness to pick Sanjay for the tour because he got hit on the face by Winston Benjamin in the Delhi Test of the 1987-88 series. I insisted that Sanjay be picked," said Vengsarkar, who released Manjrekar's book Imperfect at a city hotel.