Shreyas Iyer recently addressed the media in the post match conference after India beat Sri Lanka by 302 runs in Mumbai. Iyer played a stunning knock for India after multiple failures and put 82 runs on board off 56 balls after smashing three fours and six sixes.
In the post match conference after India beat Sri Lanka, a journalist questioned Shreyas Iyer regarding his issues with playing Short ball. He asked, “why has the short ball been a problem for him since the beginning of this World Cup 2023?” Which Shreyas Iyer didn’t like.
Shreyas Iyer dismissed issues with playing short ball in ODIs
“When you say it’s a problem for me, what do you mean? Troubled me? Have you seen how many pull shots I’ve scored, especially that have gone for four? If you’re trying to hit a ball, you’re bound to get out anyway, irrespective of if it’s a short ball, if it’s overpitched. If I get bowled two or three times, you all would say, ‘he can’t play an in-swinging ball, he can’t play a cut if the ball is seaming”, said Shreyas Iyer.
“We as players, we are bound to get out on any sort of deliveries. You guys have created that mahaul [atmosphere] outside that ‘he can’t play a short ball’, and I feel that people are picking that up every now and then and it plays on your [the media’s] mind regularly, and you keep working on that,” he added.
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“Coming from Mumbai, especially from Wankhede where the bounce is pretty much even, here it bounces way more than any other pitches. I’ve played the majority of my games here, so I know how to tackle it. It’s just that when I go to hit some shots you are bound to get out,”he said.
“Sometimes it may work, sometimes it may not, and majority of the times it hasn’t worked for me, maybe that’s the reason you think it’s a problem for me, but in my mind I know there’s no problem,” Iyer concluded.
