This must be the end of Iyer's international career

[Lord]

11 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

He is clearly aware of the problem.  He reacted just like how Kohli reacted when he was told about backfoot game in the interview. I don't think any player is going to take it well. If you go and tell Kuldeep "are you mentally weak when batsmen attack you" he is not going to take it well too. Nobody is going to admit "Yes i have weakness" Imagine someone saying the same to Sourav ganguly. He is going to be even more harsh

 

Kuldeep talked about his mental health issues publicly. This was just an arrogant response. No one would be asking the question if he wasn't getting out to it repeatedly and the journalist also mentioned his sixes v SL and asked if he worked on it. Could so easily have accepted it and said he's working on it. 

 

But he's not even accepting it so it won't improve.

[Lord]

20 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

Not like this.  They will back him.  Come on they won't drop a guy who hits these 100 meter sixes effortlessly when on song. He scores a 50 or 100 every 2.5 innings with all these weaknesses. They want that from someone else. Kishan's problem is he doesn't rotate strike. Even in T20 mroe than 50% of his deliveries are dot balls. It will put pressure on other guys. Today Iyer was flying which allowed KL Rahul to rotate the strike

 

Kishan also has good avg SR if you wanna go that way.

 

7 of Iyer's 19 50+ scores are v WI who didn't even qualify, 3 v SL. So it is not as impressive as you are making it sound. 

 

[putrevus]

1 hour ago, Lord said:

 

Kuldeep talked about his mental health issues publicly. This was just an arrogant response. No one would be asking the question if he wasn't getting out to it repeatedly and the journalist also mentioned his sixes v SL and asked if he worked on it. Could so easily have accepted it and said he's working on it. 

 

But he's not even accepting it so it won't improve.

He does not have to accept it publicly to work on his weakness.As long as he knows his weakness and he is working towards it then he should be fine. By all he reports he was working on short pitch bowling before SL match.

[R!TTER]

1 hour ago, Lord said:

 

Kuldeep talked about his mental health issues publicly. This was just an arrogant response. No one would be asking the question if he wasn't getting out to it repeatedly and the journalist also mentioned his sixes v SL and asked if he worked on it. Could so easily have accepted it and said he's working on it. 

 

But he's not even accepting it so it won't improve.

If it's in his head, like it is right now, he'll fail more often than not as that's just how sports works on the topmost levels! We'll just have to hope his bad days don't come in the KO games, assuming he plays in them.

[Number]

1 hour ago, Swag said:

that does give me some confidence, hopefully it never comes to a 40/2 scenario.

Yes. Over the years he has played some good knocks against quality attacks in middle order. Def. the best we have for that role unless Rishabh becomes available.

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[Lord]

16 minutes ago, R!TTER said:

If it's in his head, like it is right now, he'll fail more often than not as that's just how sports works on the topmost levels! We'll just have to hope his bad days don't come in the KO games, assuming he plays in them.

yeah the way he responded tells its in his head. He's also misses full balls because he's expecting short stuff.

 

 

[singhvivek141]

26 minutes ago, putrevus said:

He does not have to accept it publicly to work on his weakness.As long as he knows his weakness and he is working towards it then he should be fine. By all he reports he was working on short pitch bowling before SL match.

He also doesn't need to give his entire history to justify that.

He should have simply told, "I don't think it's a weakness, just something which didn't execute well. Will work on execution"...journalist was just doing his duty.

 

Examples like these gives up the illusion that cricketers don't want any questions which is tough for them to answer.

[singhvivek141]

21 minutes ago, R!TTER said:

If it's in his head, like it is right now, he'll fail more often than not as that's just how sports works on the topmost levels! We'll just have to hope his bad days don't come in the KO games, assuming he plays in them.

The minute he said to journalist that you guys create a news on small things...it became clear that he is now worried about this problem.

[vvvslaxman]

2 hours ago, Lord said:

 

Kishan also has good avg SR if you wanna go that way.

 

7 of Iyer's 19 50+ scores are v WI who didn't even qualify, 3 v SL. So it is not as impressive as you are making it sound. 

 

 

Short ball can be bowled by anyone. Even West Indians.   If someone is consistently weak against short ball he would have been bounced out in almost every match. His real problem started due to overindulgence of playing agianst them. To be fair he connected a lot of balls well. Balls that into his body at eye level is where he failed almost all the time. That is what AB is talking about.  He knows by now he will be trolleld left right center if he gets out one more time. Hope he makes the right call.  He has played enough matches as of now. Suddenly bringing in someone else and if he fails there will be severe backlash. I don't think Rohit will take that chance.

[putrevus]

50 minutes ago, singhvivek141 said:

He also doesn't need to give his entire history to justify that.

He should have simply told, "I don't think it's a weakness, just something which didn't execute well. Will work on execution"...journalist was just doing his duty.

 

Examples like these gives up the illusion that cricketers don't want any questions which is tough for them to answer.

I would love to see them admit their weaknesses and mistakes.But the reason I feel they don't do it publically is two fold.Our selectors and media. Both tend to feed on those things.

 

[Chakdephatte]

Had not logged in long. Came back and boom! You people haven't changed. Every player is judged with each passing innings. 

[Ravi_Shastri]

ICF cricket experts 

[Gollum]

Credit to him for a good recovery. Played like a headless chicken the first 5 innings, and a brilliant 100 today, ATG even. 

 

His short ball weakness can be covered on these pitches.

[Lone Wolf]

Backed him all the way ATG inns today.

[maniac]

14 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Credit to him for a good recovery. Played like a headless chicken the first 5 innings, and a brilliant 100 today, ATG even. 

 

His short ball weakness can be covered on these pitches.

his short ball problem is not worse than Ganguly or Raina. He has the clutch temperament of Raina, more batting range than Ganguly and more consistency and hunger for long  runs  than Raina. Best option in the middle order. Quality is quality

[Nikola]

In asia he is beast. He is not just run accumulator but boundary hitter specially hits good amount of sixes.

[Majestic]

Top quality hundred from Shreyas Iyer at a very good rate. His best performance of his career. The inning vs South Africa in this World Cup was his 2nd best.

[Vijy]

6 minutes ago, Majestic said:

Top quality hundred from Shreyas Iyer at a very good rate. His best performance of his career. The inning vs South Africa in this World Cup was his 2nd best.

he was the only batter, along with kela, to score at a good SR

[Majestic]

3 hours ago, Vijy said:

he was the only batter, along with kela, to score at a good SR

Rohit and Gill also.

[TNAmarkFromIndia]

6 hours ago, Ravi_Shastri said:

ICF cricket experts 

All are jhola chhaap experts here. Thank God none of them are working in BCCI.