Discussing his unbeaten partnership of 97 runs off 44 balls alongside Venkatesh Iyer in KKR's IPL 2024 Qualifier 1 against SRH, KKR captain Shreyas Iyer said, "Venkatesh spoke in Tamil, I replied in Hindi." "The only difference between me and Venkatesh is I don't speak Tamil but understand the language," he added. Venkatesh scored an unbeaten 51 off 28 balls.