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| I turned a deaf ear on outside talk of my issues with short ball: Iyer | | | agencies
NEW DELHI, Dec 24: The constant talk about his apparent weakness against short pitched delivery did affect him at one point of time but Shreyas Iyer on Friday said that he turned a "deaf ear" to outside comments and focussed on taking corrective measures which is yielding results.
Iyer, who scored 87 off 105 balls to take India out of trouble in the second Test against Bangladesh here, was targeted for a brief period with short balls by the home side bowlers. He said he was confident of doing well against the tactics as he had done a lot of practice.
"The (Bangladesh) bowlers started targeting me (with short balls) when I came to bat. When the ball was seaming, they were bowling short balls," Iyer said at the press conference at the end of second day's play.
Iyer had also scored 86 in India's lone innings in the 188-run win in the first Test in Chattogram.
Asked about outside talk about his weakness against short balls, he said, "That (short ball issue) has been something the commentators talk about. Off-the-field, people keep saying that I have that issue. It had gone into my head at some point in time. But if I leave (the ball) or keep it down, I don't have any problem. Runs were not coming (against short balls), that was the situation.
For him, it was important to shut the outside noise.
"It does play in the mind of a batter when people from outside talk about issues and it's important as a player to turn a deaf ear to them. The rest will take care of itself. At the end of the day, ignorance is bliss," said the 28-year-old right-handed batter.
Iyer said there was no change in his approach and he continued with the way he had batted in the first Test.
"When I went in to bat, the ball was not turning that much and that was the communication I had with Rishabh. I was just trying to play the line of the ball, very much similar to how I played in Chattogram.
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