Watch: Shreyas Iyer's innovative answer to the bouncer - an accidental no-look ramp shot
Unlucky Marco Jansen ended up conceding a boundary despite a top bouncer against Shreyas Iyer.
Another ugly attempt to make room and sneak through the off-side fetched Shreyas Iyer a strange boundary in an IPL 2022 game against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Friday (April 15).
Facing SRH's brisk left-arm quick Marco Jansen's short-ball, the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) went for a premeditated ramp shot. But the delivery from Jansen kept coming into Iyer's body and cramped him for room so much that he ended up playing a no-look hit over the keeper.
The funny-looking stroke saw the KKR right-hander even twist and nearly collapse from his original position, but still find the boundary, his ultimate intention of opening up and creating space through the off-side.
Shreyas Iyer's bizarre shot finds boundary against Marco Jansen
The incident is from the second ball of the 4th over in the KKR first-innings. Facing Jansen from the over-the-wicket angle for the left-arm quick, Shreyas Iyer aimed for a cut shot up and over the in-field by opening up to the leg-side and creating room for himself.
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But the ball from Jansen was so well directed it kept following the right-hander and gave him absolute no breathing space to execute his originally intended stroke.
Yet, to Jansen's misfortune, Iyer got just enough connection with his bat held high that it ended up sailing over the keeper's head and went for a four in the batter's kitty.
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This, of course, is not the first time that Shreyas Iyer has tried to find a boundary over the in-field by opening up down leg side and creating room to go up and over.
Not known for playing the bouncers too well, the batter tries to make up for his lack of trigger across to the off-stump against short-pitch balls by moving to the on-side and hitting this length through the off-side.
Often, when Iyer misses the ball or edges it, he becomes a sitting duck for criticism and naysaying over social media. But the batter has found a way to connect his strokes on such deliveries or survive to keep his innings going by forcing the ball to pitch it up in his half.