Dubai: The Indian cricket team faced New Zealand in the final of the Champions Trophy. In this match, Team India won by 4 wickets and won its record third title. For the victory of this match, Rohit Sharma is being considered the hero of the match for his innings of 76 runs. At the same time, Varun Chakravarthy is also being given credit for his spin. But in reality there is another player who should be given credit but has not got it yet.
Shreyas Iyer should not be forgotten
While all the credit for the victory in this tournament is being given to Rohit Sharma and other players. Shreyas Iyer's hard work in the tournament should not be ignored. Team India had lost 2 wickets after scoring 106 runs at one point and was under pressure. But then Iyer played an innings of 48 runs in 62 balls in difficult times and took the team across. In this innings, Iyer hit 2 fours and 2 sixes.
Played a brilliant innings in the semi-finals too
Shreyas Iyer had earlier played an innings of 45 runs against Australia in the semi-finals when Team India was under pressure. Before that, he had scored 79 runs against New Zealand on a stuck pitch. Iyer also scored 56 runs against Pakistan. Iyer has played very important innings in this entire tournament. But he did not get that much credit.
Gambhir and Rohit also played similar innings
Something similar had happened in the 2011 World Cup. Gautam Gambhir played an innings of 97 runs in the 2011 final match against Sri Lanka. Team India, chasing a big score, had lost the wickets of Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar before 50 runs. But Gambhir, along with Virat Kohli, stayed at the crease and pulled the team out of trouble. However, he did not get credit for his innings for a long time.
Rohit Sharma also played a similar innings against Pakistan in the 2007 T20 World Cup final. Rohit scored 30 runs in just 16 balls while remaining unbeaten in this match. Rohit hit 2 fours and 1 six and somehow took Team India past the score of 150 runs. However, this innings of Rohit remained hidden somewhere. Rohit did not open at that time and he used to bat in the lower middle order.
