Dubai, Feb. 25 -- The longer the gap between your mistakes, the more likely you are to find success in the sporting world. There are no double takes and if you keep failing in the same way, there is always someone else ready to step up.

Shreyas Iyer knows how that feels. He ceded his place in the Test team to Sarfaraz Khan and is still looking for a way back. And a back injury combined with a weakness against the short ball saw even his place in ODIs being questioned.

But now that the right-hander from Mumbai is back among the runs, he is slowly but surely sending a message across to opposition - the short ball is not a problem any more. Proof enough are scores of 59, 44, 78, 15 and 56 in his last five ODI innings. His perceived weaknes...