Ranji Trophy: Shreyas Iyer hits first First-Class hundred in three years

While Mhatre fell connected 176, Iyer proceeded to his 100 successful 131 balls connected the backmost of 9 fours and 3 sixes.

The period marked an extremity to a agelong drought for Iyer, who has been excluded from India’s Test set-up since India’s location Test bid against England successful aboriginal 2024. The 29-year-old’s past FC 100 came successful India colours successful November 2021 against New Zealand successful Kanpur. Iyer besides completed 6000 First Class runs during the knock.

Iyer has endured a mediocre agelong since the commencement of the 2024-25 home cricket season. In the Duleep Trophy, Iyer lone managed 154 runs successful six innings, with 2 fifties and arsenic galore ducks. In the pursuing Irani Cup necktie for Mumbai, Iyer managed 57 and 8 crossed 2 innings. Iyer recorded different duck successful the opening circular of the Ranji Trophy past week successful Baroda.

Iyer, alongwith India wicket-keeper Ishan Kishan, were excluded from the BCCI Central Contracts database successful aboriginal 2024 erstwhile they were deemed to person skipped home matches. Though Iyer reasoned backmost and groin symptom for missing retired connected Ranji matches for Mumbai, the BCCI’s aesculapian squad headed by Nitin Patel — the caput of sports subject astatine the National Cricket Academy — recovered nary issues with his fitness.

Iyer was an integral portion of India’s broadside crossed formats past year. The Mumbaikar successful peculiar had a bully outing astatine the World Cup successful October-November, wherever helium scored 468 runs, including 2 centuries and 3 fifties and was 1 of the stars. Though helium was struggling successful Tests, helium was fixed a agelong rope, earlier being dropped mid-way done the ongoing bid against England.