After a hole of more than 90 days, center request hitter Shreyas Iyer made a fairly tense re-visitation of T20 design while playing in an inhouse practice match of Kolkata Knight Riders here on Sunday.
Shreyas, who is set to lead KKR in IPL 2024, scarcely looked agreeable in the center while enlisting 22 of 19 balls prior to getting confused by Phil Salt off a nearby left-arm spinner.
Shreyas, who last played a T20 in December 2023, against Australia in Bengaluru, was beaten external the off-stump in the absolute first ball he looked from pacer Andre Russell.
In the extremely next ball, he looked Russell for a four yet the right-hander never truly tracked down his course during his spell in the center.
Generally agreeable against spinners, Shreyas on this day took a gander adrift against leg-spinner Suyansh Sharma who figured out how to beat him with some sharp turn.
The 29-year-old ultimately got out when he attempted to shimmy down the track and space the spinner. He totally missed the ball and British bloke Salt wrapped up behind the stumps.
The match played was between KKR Group Gold and KKR Group Purple, for whom Shreyas emerged to bat.
Shreyas will expect to better his endeavors before long as a decent trip in this version of the IPL is required for him to stay inside selectors’ radar in the wake of passing up BCCI’s focal agreement alongside Ishan Kishan.
It could be reviewed that Shreyas was not considered for determination for the home T20I series against Afghanistan in January in spite of him making a 37-ball 53 against the Aussies at the M Chinnaswamy Arena.
Be that as it may, Shreyas had made a familiar 111-ball 95 for Mumbai in the new Ranji Prize last against Vidarbha at the Wankhede Arena.
Mitchell Starc, the record purchase in last IPL sell off, will join the KKR crew on Monday.