{"id":623508,"date":"2025-12-10T04:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/623508\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:54:12","slug":"lot-of-attitude-kkr-coach-opens-up-on-released-player-ahead-of-ipl-auction-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/623508\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lot of attitude&#8217;: KKR coach opens up on released player ahead of IPL auction | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lkjnm-1.jpg\" alt=\"'Lot of attitude': KKR coach opens up on released player ahead of IPL auction\" title=\"KKR\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> NEW DELHI: Venkatesh Iyer has entered the IPL 2026 mini-auction with a base price of Rs 2 crore after being released by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).Speaking on The Great Indian Cricket Show on DD Sports, KKR head coach Abhishek Nayar explained that it was Iyer\u2019s attitude, more than his numbers, that stood out during the trials.<\/p>\n<p>KKR IPL 2026 trades, retentions, releases, squad update: Are they missing Gambhir?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually picked him because of his attitude. On day one, Venkatesh Iyer walked in with swagger; he performed, but he never looked at us or tried to please anyone. I thought he was someone with a lot of attitude,\u201d Nayar said, ANI reported quoting a release from The Great Indian Cricket Show.Nayar recalled another moment from the trials. \u201cOn day two, we gave him a game. In the final over, when our bowler cramped, Venky shouted from the boundary, \u2018I will bowl the last over.\u2019 He bowled and conceded 18 runs, but what I loved was his willingness to face adversity.\u201d\u201cThe trial mattered less to him than proving to himself that he was doing the right thing. That conviction stayed with me,\u201d Nayar added.Venkatesh Iyer made his IPL debut for KKR in 2021, scoring 370 runs in 10 matches as the team reached the final, where they lost to Chennai Super Kings.In KKR\u2019s title-winning season in 2024, the left-hander again scored 370 runs. In the 2025 season, he scored 142 runs in 11 matches, including one fifty, at an average of 20.28. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: Venkatesh Iyer has entered the IPL 2026 mini-auction with a base price of Rs 2 crore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[193782,1406,193783,191669,193781,193779,79,16,15,193780,193778,193784],"class_list":{"0":"post-623508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-abhishek-nayar-kkr","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-ipl-2026-auction-analysis","11":"tag-ipl-mini-auction","12":"tag-ipl-player-base-price","13":"tag-kolkata-knight-riders-2026","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-venkatesh-iyer-cricket-career","18":"tag-venkatesh-iyer-ipl-2026","19":"tag-venkatesh-iyer-stats"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115693491018887216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}