Immensely talented Shreyas Iyer has developed a weakness against the short ball and the opposition uses that tactic whenever the batter comes out to the crease. Shreyas’ KKR coach Brendon McCullum was seen given signals to England bowlers to bowl short balls at him and the batter was dismissed through that ploy in both the innings of the recently-concluded Edgbaston Test which India lost by seven wickets.
Ex-BCCI selector Jatin Paranjape talked about Shreyas Iyer and how he needs to sort out his short-ball weakness by grinding it out in the middle.
“I think there are several approaches to this. I don’t have a doubt in my mind that Shreyas Iyer has the talent. More importantly, I think he has the gravitas for international cricket. I feel it is a question of learning. From what I saw of him, it’s that one ball that got him which he played badly. You could see it in his eyes that he knew he had to bat half a session more. I was thinking to myself the ball before he got out that if Shreyas bats 30-35 minutes here, we are home,” the former India player and selector told senior sports journalist Jamie Alter in an interview.
