India managed to clinch the 3 match ODI series comfortably against England with the last match winning by a marginal gap of the 142 runs. Shubman Gill played a decent knock of 112 runs. The consistency of Shubman Gill has been witnessed in the ODI series in as he smashed 2 half centuries and 1 century. What Should be noted here is Shreyas Iyer’s performance throughout the series. He smashed 78 runs last night giving a hand in the team’s runs.
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Performance Against England
Iyer, who was not supposed to play in the first ODI was given a chance when Virat Kohli was rested because of his knee injury. Iyer was successful in keeping his spot in the playing XI since the first match by scoring 59 runs in the first match against the dreadful English bowling attack comprising Saqib Mahmood, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, and Brydon Carse. Since then his performance has been nothing short of exceptional.
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Exceptional At No.4 Spot
Shreyas Iyer’s no.4 batting spot in ODI comprises of exceptional figures. In 36 innings, Iyer has scored 1578 runs with an average of 52.60. He has been managed to maintain pretty decent strike rate of 103.82. In these 36 innings, Iyer scored 4 centuries and 10 half centuries. Speaking of the aerial shots, he has hit 44 sixes but what fascinates the spectators is his number of fours that he hit. He drove 150 fours to the boundary which demonstrates his ability to control his shots.
