Delhi: If you start the ODI series against England this year with the ODI series in India, Shreyas Iyer’s ODI score against Australia is 59,44,78,15,56,79 and 45. Will you not even say that India’s number 4 batsman Shreyas Iyer is in excellent form in ODIs? Not only the important part of Team India, India’s batting is the backbone. Currently with 702 rating points, the number 8 batsman in the ICC rankings and one of the 3 batsmen from India who are in the top 10. This mention automatically tells how Shreyas Iyer’s graph in batting in ODIs is not only for India at this time.
In the last few years, in the discussion of Team India’s ODI performance, which was the most written about the issue, it is a lack of better option to bat at number 4. To bat on the position of No. 4, many years later, a regular batsman has been found on which the team is trusting and seeing the score, the gear of their batting style can change. Currently Shreyas Iyer’s ODI record at number 4: 1773 runs in 40 matches 52.14 and 100.51 with a strike rate with 4 of 100 and 12 of 100 and 50.
Okay, in the list of most ODI runs at number 4, Shreyas is currently at number 47, but he has played 40 innings on this number. Virat Kohli has scored 1767 runs in 39 innings at number 4. For India, more than Shreyas at No. 4, only Sachin Tendulkar (2059), Dilip Vengsarkar (2138), Rahul Dravid (3226), Yuvraj Singh (3384) and Mohammad Azharuddin (4405) have scored but none of them had scored 1400 runs in 40 innings. Globally, more than Shreyas runs in 40 innings are only from Michael Bevan (1795) and Viv Richards (1831), but till then none of these had a strike rate of 100.
Now the issue is whether Shreyas will be able to retain this form? Shreyas is proving to be a special link in batting for Team India with every innings and his biggest land is to handle the team’s score after a good/bad start of the opener. This is a completely different role from scoring without pressure, and it is not necessary that the number 1 to 3 batsmen of Team India are scoring a lot of runs in every innings. How successful Shreyas will be in this role, it will only tell time, but it is so certain that after the career fluctuations, he has come to know the price of his wicket and has to play as a regular player in Team India. This will also make the way to the Test team. Not only was out of the Test team in 2024, BCCI’s Central Contract also lost. All changing series started from KKR’s IPL 2024 title.
Shreyas has fulfilled this responsibility since the return to Team India after these different difficulties of about one and a half years (including back discomfort) and during the 2023 ODI World Cup, were one of the special players of the team. Now the same role is moving forward and hope that they will continue to be the backbone of the team’s batting.
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