There’s A Lot Of Yuvraj Singh’s Flair In Venkatesh Iyer’s Batting After His Impressive Knocks In IPL 2021 vs RCB, MI: Parthiv Patel

Parthiv Patel: There’s A Lot Of Yuvraj Singh In Venkatesh Iyer’s Batting

Venkatesh Iyer remained unbeaten on 41 against RCB in a 9 wicket win and brought up his maiden IPL half-century against defending champions Mumbai Indians in the next game. Impressed with the left-hander’s batting prowess, former India wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel said Venkatesh Iyer’s flair reminds him of Yuvraj Singh.

“There is a lot of Yuvraj Singh in his (Venkatesh Iyer) batting. He has a bit of flow into him. I mean, sure, you don’t compare him to Yuvraj Singh but here you talk about the bat flow, the shots, the drive… standing upright. The backfoot drive which he played I thought was the shot of the day,” Parthiv Patel said on the pre-match show for the official broadcasters Star Sports.

Parthiv Patel, whose father had passed away on 26th September played 25 Tests, 38 One Day Internationals (ODIs), and 2 T20Is for Team India. Parthiv Patel has scored 934 runs in Tests while he has 736 runs to his name in ODIs. In T20Is, he scored 36 runs. After retiring from cricket, Parthiv Patel is currently playing the role of a commentator. He is currently doing commentary in IPL 2021.

On Sunday, Venkatesh Iyer scored 18 runs against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) as KKR suffered their first defeat in the UAE leg of IPL 2021. Venkatesh Iyer’s contribution at the top of the order has given the likes of skipper Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell and Dinesh Karthik to come in and play big shots from the word go. Despite going down against CSK in a last-ball thriller on Sunday, KKR are still placed fourth on the IPL 2021 points table.

KKR Named Tim Southee In Place Of Injured Andre Russell And Sandeep Warrier In Place Of Expensive Prasidh Krishna Against Delhi Capitals

The Kolkata-based franchise will be up against Rishabh Pant’s Delhi Capitals in Sharjah on Tuesday. While KKR will look to get back to winning ways, Delhi Capitals will be aiming to continue their unbeaten run in the UAE.

Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Eoin Morgan won the toss and elected to bowl first in their Indian Premier League match against Delhi Capitals. KKR made a couple of changes from the previous game with injured all-rounder Andre Russell and out-of-form pacer Prasidh Krishna making way for Kiwi quick Tim Southee and fast bowler Sandeep Warrier. For the Delhi Capitals, the injured Prithvi Shaw made way for Australian Steve Smith in the playing XI.

In 40 IPL games, Tim Southee has picked 28 wickets at an economy rate of 8.47. He came as a replacement player for Pat Cummins who picked 9 scalps in 7 games averaging 26.33 besides scoring 93 runs averaging 31 in the first half of IPL 2021 in India.