Sanjay Manjrekar said that he was left absolutely shocked seeing Iyer not making the cut despite showcasing unbelievable form in ODI cricket and in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025.
The BCCI selection committee didn't recall Iyer to the T20I squad despite his recent heroics, and the fans and experts were left surprised by the development.
Many experts felt he was a sure-shot selection in the Asia Cup 2025 squad, but the Ajit Agarkar-led panel took a different route and preferred to recall Shubman Gill into the T20I squad instead.
“Shreyas Iyer not making this T20 squad of India for the Asia Cup is just shocking. This is a guy who was left out of the Indian team for the right reason because they felt he wasn’t committing himself as much to domestic cricket. But it had the desired effect on Shreyas Iyer: when he came back again in the England at-home ODI series, the way he batted, you could see that he was just batting like he had never batted before."
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Manjrekar felt that the selectors made a blunder by mixing formats and picking Shubman Gill over Shreyas Iyer because the latter displayed better T20 performance while Gill looked great in Test cricket.
"So, when you do that to a player who has put in one of the best performances ever in the last few months in a format for which the Indian team is being selected, and you leave him out of that format, that’s for a guy who has excelled in a completely different format: Test cricket. Pick a guy who’s done well in T20 cricket, and not just because somebody has done so well in Test cricket gets rewarded with a T20 place, especially at the cost of somebody like Shreyas Iyer," he added.
I just find that devoid of cricketing logic - Sanjay Manjrekar
"It’s something I’ve seen over the years, not recently: this tendency of selectors to pick a player based on performances in one format, where that person excelled, and then picking him for another format.
"When I see a player getting rewarded for his Test match performances by being placed in the T20 side, I just find that devoid of cricketing logic. It just doesn’t make any sense.”
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