Former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar has credited ex-India captain Dilip Vengsarkar for fighting with the selectors to pick him in India’s squad for the 1988-89 West Indies tour.

At the launch of the book A Legend with Difference, written by Vengsarkar’s King George High School teammate Sanjay Satam, at the MCA-BKC academy on Wednesday, Manjrekar, who was India’s top-scorer in that series with 200 runs, revealed that he was the squad’s 17th player.