The last group stage match of the Hampshire Trophy 2025 is being played between India and New Zealand. After the top order wickets fell, Shreyas Iyer took charge of the Indian team.
He played a well-planned innings of 79 runs. The consistency of the team’s middle order batsman Shreyas Iyer is being discussed everywhere (Shreyas Iyer middle order record).
4 fifties in last 6 ODI matches
Shreyas Iyer has scored 4 fifties in the last 6 ODI matches. Earlier, in the Champions Trophy match against Pakistan, he scored 56 runs in 67 balls. In the series against England, Iyer scored 78, 44 and 59 runs. In the ongoing match against New Zealand, Iyer scored 79 runs with 4 fours and 2 sixes.
After three wickets fell for 30 runs, Iyer took charge of the team along with Axar Patel. There was a partnership of 98 runs between the two for the fourth wicket. After this, Iyer shared a 44-run partnership with KL Rahul for the fifth wicket. However, this was Iyer’s slowest fifty in his ODI career. He completed his fifty in 75 balls. Before that, in the match against West Indies in 2022, he hit a fifty in 74 balls.
There were many reactions on social media for Iyer who is constantly handling the team in the middle order. One user wrote,
“Shreyas Iyer does not get much hype because he does not score big centuries. But he is the only player in the middle order who consistently scores fifties.”
