Shreyas Iyer (picture of credit: ICC photo) New Delhi: The former Opener of India Aakash Chopra expressed a surprise in the exclusion of Shreyas Iyer from the list of reserve players for the upcoming Asia Cup and pointed out that he would not send the right message regarding his future T20i.Iyer, who has accumulated 604 runs in a hit of 175 in the IPL 2025, while led by Kings Pandjab to the runners, showed a significant improvement against the short ball and dominated the sinning during the tournament. Yet he did not find a place in the 15-member team for the Asia Cup or in the list of five-member reserves.He previously missed the former assistant of Indian assistant Abhishek Nayar and now Chopra has expressed similar concerns. “The name Shreyas is not even in five reserves, and that’s surprising. It is understandable that you couldn’t have it at 15 because you can’t play it in XI, and you wanted a lower -order dough as a deposit where Shivam Dube is there, and Rink Singh will be given another chance, which is absolutely for this course.“However, the place could have been created at least in reserve players where you left Dhruv Jurel, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Prasidh Krishna. Shreyas’s name could have been there, but you didn’t hold there, and it won’t send a big signal.At the same time, Chopra believes that Iyer’s international future is far from over and that he still has a way to 2026 Men’s World Championship T20 if he maintains a strong ODIS performance. Meanwhile, Iyer’s immediate focus on representing the western zone in the Duleep Trophy, which means the beginning of the home season 2025/26.
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“Shreyas Iyer is not a big story. What more will Shreyas Iyer do? What more can you do than what you have done? You had 600-plus an IPL season, took the team to the finals, scored Runs in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, played Ranji, played Ranji, and that’s what you can do as human being.“This is the Asia Cup team. Don’t tell him the World Championship with him, because after this is 15 T20.
