“After five Test matches, you don’t want to telegraph to the world that you have a short-ball problem,” said former England skipper Nasser Hussain on air. He was, of course, discussing Shreyas Iyer’s dismissal, as the batsman once again walked in to a short-ball trap.
The minute Iyer entered the arena after Cheteshwar Pujara fell, the cameras panned to England coach Brendon McCullum. He was seen signalling to the bowlers and to skipper Ben Stokes to have two balls at the throat every over at Iyer, along with a signal to keep a leg slip.
McCullum knows Iyer well, having coached him in the IPL for KKR. He had seen him struggle against the pacy Umran Malik even on the featherbeds of Mumbai. Iyer, incidentally had fallen to the short ball in the first innings too as Jimmy Anderson had him gloving to Sam Billings.
One will have to ask if he is now gaining a similar reputation to what another debut Test centurion and white-ball star, former ODI skipper Suresh Raina had. Of not liking it too much when the ball is chest high. On Monday, Matthew Potts fed him a substantial diet of pacy and energetic short-pitched stuff. Iyer avoided some and defended the others in ungainly fashion. The delivery before his dismissal was the most ugly, as he ducked and the ball swerved away and avoided Billings to go for four byes.
Stokes stationed Anderson at mid-wicket and next ball, another short ball over his right shoulder was swatted straight into the senior seamer’s lap. A couple of crunchy cover drives were conceded by Potts to Iyer, perhaps because he had briefly forgotten what the plans were. But then he quickly reset and had his man.
Iyer’s issues with pace and the short ball were visible even in the T20I series against South Africa.
India coach Rahul Dravid could perhaps facilitate a Zoom call with BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, who also had troubles against the short ball but worked his way around it successfully.
Former Australia captain Steve Waugh made over 10,000 Test runs despite struggling early on with pace. Dravid knows him well too, having written the foreword to Waugh’s autobiography, titled ‘Out of my comfort zone’. In those words perhaps lie the answer to Iyer’s issues.
The minute Iyer entered the arena after Cheteshwar Pujara fell, the cameras panned to England coach Brendon McCullum. He was seen signalling to the bowlers and to skipper Ben Stokes to have two balls at the throat every over at Iyer, along with a signal to keep a leg slip.
McCullum knows Iyer well, having coached him in the IPL for KKR. He had seen him struggle against the pacy Umran Malik even on the featherbeds of Mumbai. Iyer, incidentally had fallen to the short ball in the first innings too as Jimmy Anderson had him gloving to Sam Billings.
One will have to ask if he is now gaining a similar reputation to what another debut Test centurion and white-ball star, former ODI skipper Suresh Raina had. Of not liking it too much when the ball is chest high. On Monday, Matthew Potts fed him a substantial diet of pacy and energetic short-pitched stuff. Iyer avoided some and defended the others in ungainly fashion. The delivery before his dismissal was the most ugly, as he ducked and the ball swerved away and avoided Billings to go for four byes.
Stokes stationed Anderson at mid-wicket and next ball, another short ball over his right shoulder was swatted straight into the senior seamer’s lap. A couple of crunchy cover drives were conceded by Potts to Iyer, perhaps because he had briefly forgotten what the plans were. But then he quickly reset and had his man.
Iyer’s issues with pace and the short ball were visible even in the T20I series against South Africa.
India coach Rahul Dravid could perhaps facilitate a Zoom call with BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, who also had troubles against the short ball but worked his way around it successfully.
Former Australia captain Steve Waugh made over 10,000 Test runs despite struggling early on with pace. Dravid knows him well too, having written the foreword to Waugh’s autobiography, titled ‘Out of my comfort zone’. In those words perhaps lie the answer to Iyer’s issues.
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