With the pandemic bringing all major sporting events around the world to a halt, the Indian middle-order batsman Shreyas Iyer, who was in the ominous form before the lockdown, feels it will not be easy to return to cricket, but assured he is ready for the challenge. During a recent interview with IANS, Iyer said that a few training session will settle down things completely after lockdown.
Shreyas said, “Yes, we will need a few net sessions for sure to get the timing back (as a batsman) and also to get the muscle memory working. Will be holding the bat after a while also to have players standing around as you face bowlers bowling at 140kph, it will not be easy to come back into that zone and it will need a few training sessions as also the mental memory to settle down completely.”
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The 25-year-old reckons that live cricket will also help the Indian public look forward to life in a positive way as cricket is a religion in the country.
Iyer elaborated, “I would be very keen to go out and play because that is what I am waiting for. You do realize that cricket is a religion in this country and if we go out and play and it is there for people to view on television, it will be a huge positive as things will start moving towards normal and people will also be entertained.”
Currently, India is going through a nationwide lockdown. Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus positive patients in India went past 82700 with almost 2660 people losing their lives on Friday, as per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
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Almost the entire is in a lockdown due to the scare of the ever-escalating situation concerning the World Health Organisation-recognized pandemic that is the Coronavirus. Everything- schools, colleges, airports, railway stations, gyms, sporting events, movies, offices- have been put under lockdown as the world continues to self-isolate in order to control the pandemic.
