India, March 20 -- Newly-appointed Kolkata Knight Riders vice-captain Venkatesh Iyer has learnt to stay in the present the hard way. The KKR all-rounder who was fast-tracked into the Indian T20I side in 2021 after a splendid second half of IPL 2020, was in the reckoning for a spot in India's T20 World Cup squad but that thought plagued him from concentrating on his current outings.

Iyer did not have a great IPL in 2022 and he also lost his spot in the Indian white-ball squads after playing 9 T20Is and two ODIs.

Iyer, however made a strong comeback. He is yet to get his spot back in the national side but in IPL, he emerged as one of KKR's most-trusted batters. The left-hander scored 404 runs in IPL 2023 at a strike rate of 145.85 and bac...