Shreyas, the spin-hitting crusader

The journalist's question was ... short ball has been a problem for you.... Iyer's combative response was 'when you say it's a problem for me, what do you mean?'

- SWAROOP SWAMINATHAN

When the journalist rephrased that question to... but it has troubled you...', the Mumbai batter doubled down. "Have you seen how many pull shots... especially which has gone for four. If you are trying to hit a ball, you are bound to get out anyway... If I get bowled two or three times, you all would say, 'okay, he can't play an inswinging ball, he can't play cut if the ball is seaming'.

"... You guys have created that environment outside that he can't play a short ball. I feel that people are picking that up every now and then and it plays on your mind regularly and you keep working on that... it's just that when I go to hit some shots, you are bound to get out.

Sometimes, it may work, sometimes, it may not. Majority of the times, it hasn't worked for me, maybe that's the reason you think it's a problem for me.