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India vs New Zealand 5th T20I: Shreyas Iyer's Batting Form in Focus After Auckland Defeat
Shreyas Iyer, NZ vs IND: After scoring a century, Shreyas Iyer's bat has remained silent. Iyer has not scored a half-century in his last eight T20I innings. Read the full report.
The fifth and final T20 International match in the series will take place in Hamilton on 1 November. Everyone's attention will, as always, be focused on Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma in the match. Shreyas Iyer, who is currently not performing well, will also be in the limelight as the bat of the Indian captain has remained dry for the past eight innings in T20 International cricket. Given this scenario, his poor showing in the last T20I match of the series against New Zealand will be enough to give the critics an opening.
The performance of the Indian T20I captain Shreyas Iyer has also been poor in the recent matches. He had hit his first century in the T20 International against the West Indies in Lucknow. Since then, he has not been able to perform well. In his last eight innings of T20I cricket, Shreyas Iyer has scored 40, 1, 16, 22, 42, 7, 5, and 22 runs, respectively. He would like to score a big innings in the last match of the T20 International series against New Zealand. He will be under pressure to score runs, as his focus will then shift to the ODI series.
Under Shreyas Iyer's captaincy, India has played 25 T20I matches, winning 14, losing 9, and ending in 2 draws. He ranks fifth on the list of achievements as an Indian captain in T20 International cricket.
