Cricket World Cup - 'Played For The Team': England Great Hails Under-Fire Shreyas Iyer After Big Win vs Sri Lanka

05.11.2023 - 10:31 sports.ndtv.com

Former England captain Nasser Hussain was all praise for Shreyas Iyer after the Indian batter silenced his critics with the bat during the Cricket World Cup match against Sri Lanka on Thursday.

Amid talks of his possible exclusion from the playing XI for the game, Iyer played a quickfire knock of 82 to take India to a big total of 357/8.

He was the third Indian batter to miss his century on the night, with Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill also falling short early on.

However, Hussain lauded Iyer for putting the team's interest on priority, when he could've easily scored a run-a-ball 40 or 50 to cement his place in the team. "What I liked about the innings was that, sometimes, people start talking that you might be the one who gets left out.

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