Under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, Punjab Kings reached the final in IPL 2025.
Under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, Punjab Kings reached the final in IPL 2025. Under his leadership, Punjab made it to the final after 11 years. Even though the team could not win the title, Shreyas Iyer and Kings are being praised a lot. Along with the fans, experts are also praising his captaincy.
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Iyer also performed well with the bat and scored 604 runs in 17 innings at an average of 50.33 and a strike rate of 175.07. Shreyas also performed brilliantly in the 2025 Champions Trophy and played an important role in getting India the title for the first time since 2013. He was the second-highest run-scorer in the tournament.
Shreyas Iyer: Indian player may get good news soon
Although Shreyas Iyer was not included in Team India for the five-match Test series against England, he may get good news in the coming days. According to a report by The Indian Express on June 7, Iyer has now officially joined the race for India’s white-ball captaincy.
The report quoted an influential person of Indian cricket as saying, ‘Right now he only plays ODIs, but after this IPL we cannot keep him out of T20 Internationals and even Tests. Also, he has now officially joined the race for white-ball captaincy.’
Let us tell you that the 30-year-old has played 14 Tests, 70 ODIs and 51 T20 matches for India so far. He played a Test match for India in February 2024. At the same time, he played his last T20 match in December 2023. He is currently captaining the SoBo Mumbai Falcons in the ongoing T20 Mumbai 2025.