Follow UsMumbai batter Shreyas Iyer is set to miss the third round of the Ranji Trophy, Cricbuzz reported on October 22 (Tuesday). The middle-order batter has played six first-class games in the space of seven weeks and needs rest for at least one week. Iyer will now miss Mumbai’s next fixture against Tripura, starting on October 26.
"No matter whatever people think outside, I have to listen to my body because I know the amount of threshold I've carried over the last few years and based on that I'll be taking the right decision and I hope that my team will also back (me),” Iyer had said after second round.
The right-hander started the Ranji season with scores of 0 and 30 against Baroda but slammed 142 against Maharashtra at the Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy BKC in Mumbai.
This was his first red-ball ton since November 2021. Indeed, the 29-year-old’s last hundred in red-ball cricket came on Test debut against New Zealand in Kanpur, 39 innings ago.
The Mumbai batter has had his share of injuries and other setbacks in the recent past. He missed out on a lot of cricket because of a back injury.
He did feature in the 2023 Asia Cup and ODI World Cup but was not offered a BCCI central contract after he did not play a Ranji game last season.
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