Shreyas Iyer Double Century: Shreyas Iyer wreaks havoc in Ranji Trophy, hits double century in T20 style

Shreyas Iyer has created havoc in the Ranji Trophy. He has scored 200 runs in just 201 balls. A match is being played between Mumbai and Odisha in Elite Group A. On the first day of the match, Iyer returned unbeaten after scoring a century. On the second day, when he came to bat, he converted it into a double century. This Mumbai batsman played the entire innings in T20 style and hit a lot of boundaries. Iyer scored 233 runs in 228 balls, which included 23 fours and 9 sixes. That is, he scored 146 runs in his innings only through boundaries. This is also the best score of Iyer's first-class career.

This is the third double century for Shreyas in first class. With this, he ended the drought of a double century in the Ranji Trophy after 9 years. He last scored a double century in Ranji in October 2015. Whereas Iyer scored a double century for the first time in a first-class match after 7 years.

Earlier, Iyer had scored 202 runs against Australia in 2017 while playing for India A. Shreyas Iyer scored a century in just 101 balls on the first day of the game. By the end of the day's play, he returned unbeaten after scoring 152 runs with the help of 18 fours and 4 sixes.

Shreyas Iyer has been struggling for the last 3 years due to injury and subsequent surgery. Due to this, his performance was also very poor. He could not score any century in first class for the last 38 innings. Iyer's last first-class century came on his Test debut against New Zealand in November 2021. Iyer missed the last Ranji match against Tripura due to a shoulder injury. Then he returned against Odisha on November 6 after recovering from the injury and scored a century in just 101 balls on the first day of the game.

By the end of the day's play, he returned unbeaten after scoring 152 runs with the help of 18 fours and 4 sixes. He continued his brilliant innings on the second day as well and scored 233 runs. Apart from Iyer, Siddhesh Lad also batted brilliantly. He is unbeaten after scoring 165 runs. With the help of the innings of both, the Mumbai team has scored 556 runs at the loss of 4 wickets by the end of the first session on the second day.