Team India's star batsman Shreyas Iyer's bat is spitting fire at this time. After playing some good innings in the Ranji Trophy, Shreyas, who led Mumbai to victory in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, has maintained his dominance in the Vijay Hazare Trophy as well. Shreyas, who scored an explosive century in the first match, played a brilliant innings in the second match as well, but he surprised everyone by coming to bat at number 9. Despite this, he led the team to victory.
In the second round of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Mumbai faced Hyderabad on Monday 23 December. In this match played in Ahmedabad, Hyderabad batted first but the team captained by Tilak Verma collapsed for just 169 runs. Mumbai achieved this small target in just 26 overs but it also lost 7 wickets and the reason for this was a decision by captain Shreyas Iyer, which surprised everyone.
Both the young openers of Mumbai returned to the pavilion for 44 runs but after this, neither captain Shreyas Iyer nor star batsman Suryakumar Yadav came for batting, but the bowling all-rounders of the team were promoted. Apart from wicketkeeper Hardik Tamore, Suryansh Shedge, Atharva Ankolekar and even Shardul Thakur and Tanush Kotian came for batting first but star batsmen like Shreyas and Surya remained sitting in the dressing room. But this move backfired and Mumbai lost 6 wickets for just 67 runs.
Then Suryakumar Yadav was sent at number eight, but he too was out after scoring just 18 runs. At such a time, Shreyas himself came to bat at number 9 and saved the team from defeat. Iyer displayed his excellent form by scoring 44 runs in just 20 balls and led the team to victory by 3 wickets. Iyer along with Kotian made an unbeaten partnership of 70 runs. Kotian also scored an unbeaten 39 runs.
The question is why did Shreyas decide to bat at number 9? The main reason for this was to give a chance to the rest of the batsmen of the team. Seeing the small target, Mumbai decided to give a chance to its middle order and lower middle order batsmen to bat so that they could also prepare for the upcoming matches but this move did not work. In such a situation, the captain himself came at number 9 and hit 4 fours and 3 sixes to give the team victory.
