The Indian cricket community and the fans have louded all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer’s terrific form and for his brilliant performance in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy 2021.
Venkatesh Iyer is one of the breakthrough stars from this year’s Indian Premier League playing for the Kolkata Knight Riders franchise. He also most recently made his T20I debut for Team India against New Zealand last month.
Venkatesh Iyer is enjoying a great last couple of months of his career, from being one of the stars of the IPL 2021, to making his debut for Team, to performing to his best for his domestic team Madhya Pradesh.
Venkatesh Iyer is a kind of a player whom the Indian team had been searching. Iyer is comfortable opening the inning, like he did for IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), and can give you overs and pick-up wickets. However, he is also comfortable playing in middle-order or lower down the order, like what he has been doing for Madhya Pradesh in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Venkatesh Iyer use to open the inning for KKR along with Shubman Gill in the IPL. He made his IPL debut in the 2nd phase of the tournament, and scored 370 runs in 10 matches, picked up 3 wickets as well.
After which, he also made his India debut against New Zealand. He continued his impressive form in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy as well, scoring 227 runs at a strike rate of 149.
He has continued his form in the 50 overs game as well. In the 4 matches that the left-hand batsman has played, he has scored 348 runs. Most recently, he scored 151 runs against Chandigarh.
The batsman’s recent form has made the fans believe that he is the replacement of injury hit Hardik Pandya, who has failed to perform at per after sustaining an injury during the 2019 World Cup.
With the South Africa ODI series incoming and is set to take place next month, Venkatesh Iyer might not be far away from making his India ODI debut.
Here’s how the fans on the Twitter has reacted to Venkatesh Iyer’s performance in the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2021.
Venkatesh Iyer in this Vijay Hazare Trophy 2021 so far:-
— CricketMAN2 (@man4_cricket) December 12, 2021
14(5).
112(84).
71(49).
151(112).
He batted at No.5 in this Vijay Hazare Trophy, and he played so so well in this tournament. – Future of Indian cricket. pic.twitter.com/XhEhHbXig3
Another 💯 for VENKATESH IYER 🙌🙌🔥🔥💜
— 󠄪 󠄪 (@SlowYorker) December 12, 2021
Can we finally say that Venkatesh Iyer is Hardik Pandya replacement, lower batsman with terrific hitting ability, one to watch out for#venkateshiyer #VijayHazareTrophy2021 #IndianCricketTeam #IndianCricket #TeamIndia
— Wahid SK (@wahidskreal) December 12, 2021
Given the form Venky Iyer and Ruturaj are in they should be make it to the 50 over team with immediate effect.
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) December 12, 2021
Venkatesh Iyer is in the form of his life, Madhya Pradesh was 56 for 4 from 13.4 overs then he smashed hundred from 88 balls including 7 fours and 5 sixes in Vijay Hazare 2021-22.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) December 12, 2021
1⃣0⃣0⃣ up & going strong! 💪 💪@ivenkyiyer2512 continues his superb run of form. 👏 👏 #MPvUTCA #VijayHazareTrophy pic.twitter.com/iiow2ATC2n
— BCCI Domestic (@BCCIdomestic) December 12, 2021
Venkatesh Iyer in last 3 Vijay Hazare Trophy matches
— Beard-Man (@being__humann) December 12, 2021
112 &3wkt
71 & 2wkts
151
Most importantly all 3 knocks comes at No. 4 & 5 position. Hardiks position at stake 😬