Shreyas Iyer Ready for a Big Season, Aspires for Last Year Redemption

'I'm looking forward to winning the IPL. If you would ask any captain, they would have the same mentality. And that's why you have to be in the present as much as possible.'
~Iyer said.

Saying this would have seemed like standard procedure for any other IPL captain. However, Shreyas Iyer is not like any other captain of the Indian Premier League right now. Iyer understands that his future is quite unclear, having been dropped from the BCCI's central contracts in the wake of a fast accumulation of critical opinion on a suspected return of a back niggle since he last played for India, in the Visakhapatnam Test last month.

Iyer's confidence is undoubtedly not riding too high at this peculiar, unsettling, and maybe critical juncture in his international career, when he might not even make the team chosen for the T20 World Cup in June. That is a significant decline from the previous year, when it was thought that Iyer's recovery was essential to India's middle-order stability during the ODI World Cup. He performed brilliantly, reaching his highest point in a one-sided semi-final at the Wankhede against New Zealand with a brilliant 105. However, it now feels so far in the past that a strong individual performance in the IPL would not be sufficient.

Not to add that there are still doubts over Iyer's health, particularly in light of rumors that the NCA has only seemingly permitted him to participate in the IPL if he takes caution when batting first. Iyer, though, has made it clear that he won't allow any of that stop him from taking whatever necessary action to leave his mark.

Shreyas Iyer Remark:

'The decision-making outside of it is not in your hand, and the more you dwell on that, the more mistakes you would be indulging in. So, I just want to keep doing my work and see to it that I do it right. And if I even do it wrong, I want to learn from it and see to it that I don't repeat it again. I have ticked the boxes in every way possible so I am in high spirits. I've been doing my training regularly, I've been hitting the balls, and I've been batting for longer periods of time. So, that is something I'm thriving on. Right now, if I look at myself, I feel that I'm in the best shape possible. I played so many years in the IPL so it's not that I am completely distant from it. Personally, my preparation has been top-notch.'
~Iyer said.