Shreyas Iyer has an average of 68.57 in the last season of the Ranji trophy and even scored his highest first class score of 233.
Mohammad Kaif joined the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) train for the non-selection of Shreyas Iyer in the Test team in India for England. Although Karun Nair is the one who claimed the place of Shreyas in the middle order, Kaif has a reproach with the selection of Sai Sudharsan.
Why Sai Sudharsan on Shreyas Iyer, asks Kaif
The former Indian striker believes that Sudharsan was chosen for his performance in the Indian Premier (IPL). Since 2023, the SouthPaw has been one of the best players in Gujarat and among the best operators in the League. But the 2025 season was just exceptions. Sudharsan has shown a coherence that is barely found in the T20.
Kaif thinks that his performance in white ball cricket, IPL, propelled it. But the same has not been applied with Shreyas. The Mumbaiker was one of the best strikers in India at the ODI 2023 World Cup and the Champions 2025 Champions Trophy. And Aced the Ranji Trophy, Vijay Hazare Trophy, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and IPL too. But it was not selected.
“Sai Sudharsan is a brilliant player, without a doubt. But he was chosen from the test team after a good IPL season (679 points so far). Iyer, on the other hand, has been successful for so long. He scored some 550 races in the ODI 2023 World Cup and in the Champions Trophy. So, on the one hand, you are considering white ball criteria for one player and not for the other, “ Kaif said on his YouTube channel.
Sudharsan, the bad choice?
But there are a few holes in the arguments of Kaif. The Ranji trophy race in Shreyas, 480 takes place at 68.57 in 7 innings, seems super on paper. But a deeper look shows that its 2 cents (142 and 233) came against a little lower teams like the Maharashtra and Odisha. If we delete these two scores, Shreyas only scored 105 points in 5 rounds.
Meanwhile, the double of Sudharsan came against Delhi. But that’s not it. In the past 9 months, the SouthPaw has a hundred for India has against Australia at home. He only has experience to play first -class cricket in England via the passage of the county championship for Surrey. We can clearly understand why Sudharsan was chosen, and it was not due to the IPL.
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