India vs New Zealand: Praise Cricket fraternity Shreyas Iyer in debut test century
Batter Shreyas Iyer on Friday became the record 16th Indian cricketer on his Test debut. Iyer hit the mark on day two of the ongoing India-New Zealand test at Green Park Stadium in Kanpur. With his first hit in India’s first round, Iyer joined Lala Amarnath, Deepak Shodhan, AG Kripal Singh, Abbas Ali Baig, Hanumant Singh, Gundappa Vishwanath, Surender Amarnath, Mohammad Azharuddin, Pravin Amre , Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Suresh. , Rohit Sharma and Prithvi Shaw as Indian players with a century-long test debut.
He is also the second Indian cricketer – the first being Vishwanath – to reach the milestone at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur.
Following his strike in India’s first inning in Kanpur, a number of former and current Indian players took to social media and praised Iyer for playing an outstanding strike.
Here are some reactions:
“Great start to your Experimental career, @ShreyasIyer15. Nice to see you’re part of #TeamIndia in ‘whites’. Good luck!” Legendary hitter Sachin Tendulkar captioned an image of Iyer on Twitter.
Great start to your Experimental career, @ ShreyasIyer15.
Glad to see you’re a part of #TeamIndia in ‘whites’.
Good luck! #INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/O1ZNlnotLA– Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) November 26, 2021
India’s Regular Tests captain Virat Kohli, who opted out of the First Test to manage his workload, also took to Instagram and praised Iyer for the same.
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“Good play and congratulations @shreyas41 on your debut century,” Kohli wrote on her Instagram story.
“Good start to testing career @ ShreyasIyer15,” Rohit Sharma, who last week led India to a 3-0 win over Kiwi in the T20I series, also tweeted.
A good start to a career in testing @ ShreyasIyer15
– Rohit Sharma (@ ImRo45) November 25, 2021
“Fantastic inning under pressure from #ShreyasIyer. Showed great maturity, composure and class and became the 16th Indian to score the century on test debut. Well played @ ShreyasIyer15. There’s so much more!” former Indian player VVS Laxman tweeted.
A great round under the pressure of #ShreyasIyer . Show maturity, composure and class and become the 16th Indian to score the century in the test. Fair play @ ShreyasIyer15 . More will come! pic.twitter.com/UAu27wcWTH
– VVS Laxman (@ VVSLaxman281) November 26, 2021
“100 debuts have come at a difficult time #ShreyasIyer,” former all-time Indian athlete Irfan Pathan wrote on Twitter.
100 on debut has come to a difficult time #ShreyasIyer
– Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) November 26, 2021
Iyer’s victory gave India a first-round tally of 345. For New Zealand, Tim Southee had a better record while Kyle Jamieson and Ajaz Patel scored three and two goals respectively.
In response, New Zealand came in at 129/0 in second place in day two with openers Will Young (75*) and Tom Latham (50*) beating for half a century.
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