Team India Batter Shreyas Iyer remembered his favorite knock from the ODI World Cup 2023, for the return of the men in Blue to the size. The player of the middle order was chosen in the ODI team that is confronted in a series of three games, before he participates in the 2025 Champions Trophy.
Iyer chose his half century against Sri Lanka in the competition phase in the Wankhede Stadium as his favorite knock of the entire tournament. The right-handed seizure had scored with a success rate of 146.63 and hit six sixths to help India put a dominant total of 357-8 on the board.
In response, Sri Lanka was excluded from a meager 55, giving India a victory of 302 run while they continued their winning series during the campaign.
Iyer revealed that the knock was crucial because there was busy on him to hold his place in the playing XI.
“The 82 against Sri Lanka. Because there was a lot of talk about dropping the team, and that I don’t give much for the team. Although I had scored a 50 against Pakistan, there was a chat that placed me in a healer Skelter situation.
Iyer had passed a meager first half of the World Cup, starting with a duck with three balls against Australia. He made a strong comeback to take two fifties, and two hundreds in the last four games of the competition phase. The batter ended with 530 runs at an average of 66.25.
Iyer added that criticism from outside can sometimes be ‘annoying’.
“It is annoying, especially if it comes from people who have not had to deal with 150 km per hour delivery and advise you to play in a certain way. But I would say it’s their opinion. They have the right To talk, but she can’t talk directly to the player between them, “Iyer added.
The batter is constantly littered with questions about his misery against the short ball. He was taken out of a journalist during a press conference, immediately after the aforementioned knock against Sri Lanka in the ODI World Cup 2023.
“The most difficult phase was my back injury” – Shreyas Iyer
Shreyas Iyer stood for a chronic problem with his back, causing him to regularly suffer injuries. With this inconsistency that influences its shape and threatened his place in the Indian side in the long term, he chose to undergo surgery for this.
He went under the knife in April 2023 after an injury during the Border -Gavaskar series, which meant missing the entire Indian Premier League (IPL) campaign and the World Test Championship (WTC) final.
“The most difficult phase was my back injury. When I underwent surgery, I thought this would completely change my body. And it was quite difficult to come back to the same zone and agility I had before the operation. After a year now I feel very comfortable and I feel strong that I can actually do what I was planning for the operation, “said Iyer (according to the aforementioned source).
Iyer eventually made his comeback in the Asia Cup 2023 and then had a productive run.
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