Former batter Sanjay Manjrekar highlighted a critical issue plaguing the current crop of Indian batters after their 0-2 home Test series defeat to South Africa. The hosts struggled with the bat in all four innings in the series, crossing 200 only once.It was a continuation of India's struggles with the bat at home in recent times, which also led to their 0-3 series whitewash against New Zealand last year. Only two Indian batters, Ravindra Jadeja and Yashasvi Jaiswal, scored a half-century in the South African series, highlighting their unfathomable struggles against spin and seam.Talking about the Indian batters' torrid display in home conditions on his Instagram handle, Manjrekar said:"There are two reasons India went down 0-3 to New Zealand and 0-2 to South Africa at home. And both teams beat India not by pace, swing or bounce but by spin. One is when an Indian batter scores heavily in domestic cricket and gets selected for India, he becomes like an NRI. In the sense that he hardly plays at home. It's more overseas cricket for Indian batters."He continued: "Looking at numbers, people like Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant play anything between nine to 12 Test matches away from home the last two years and in India not as many. And when they play Tests at home, there are hardly any first-class matches that they've played. So they come very poorly trained or any recent experience on those kinds of pitches."Manjrekar also believes that foreign teams constantly inviting India for the sake of revenue ultimately hurts India's performances at home."They are all class players with good records behind them but as I said like NRIs so slightly strangers at home when they come on those pitches. That's one problem. The reason for that is obviously all these countries like England and Australia are very desperate to have India come over and play in their country because of the revenue they generate from the Indian team," he said."So the Indian batters, once you start playing for India, you play away from home more and then you're not as well trained to play in home conditions as you were before actually playing for India," added Manjrekar.The South African loss was India's second series loss in their last three home Test series, with both being whitewashes."Stand and deliver doesn't work" - Sanjay ManjrekarSanjay Manjrekar further stated that the ability to rely on power-hitting without footwork could work against pace-bowling but not against spinners on turning tracks. Inexperienced Proteas off-spinner Simon Harmer ran riot against the Indian batters, finishing with 17 wickets in two Tests at an average of under nine."The other thing is that on turning pitches against good spinners, power doesn't work. Stand and deliver doesn't work. It can work even when you don't move your feet and just throw your bat around on fast, pacy and bouncy pitches. It's a slightly high-risk approach, but you can have some success," said Manjrekar (via the aforementioned source).He concluded:"No chance against spin. Power doesn't work against spin, stand and deliver doesn't work against spin on turning pitches. It's subtle skills the only thing a batter must have to survive and excel on turning pitches against good spinners."The latest series loss leaves India struggling at fifth on the 2025-27 World Test Championship (WTC) cycle after nine outings.