Team India's star batsman Shreyas Iyer's bat is on fire at the moment. After playing some good innings in the Ranji Trophy, Shreyas, who won the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy under his captaincy, has maintained his charm in the Vijay Hazare Trophy as well. Shreyas, who scored an explosive century in the first match, played a explosive innings in the second match too but he surprised everyone by coming to bat at number 9. Despite this he led the team to victory.

Mumbai faced Hyderabad on Monday 23 December in the second round of Vijay Hazare Trophy. In this match played in Ahmedabad, Hyderabad batted first but the team captained by Tilak Verma collapsed for only 169 runs. Mumbai achieved such a small target in just 26 overs, but 7 wickets fell and the reason for this was a decision of captain Shreyas Iyer, which surprised everyone.

Both the young openers of Mumbai had returned to the pavilion after 44 runs, but after this, neither captain Shreyas Iyer nor star batsman Suryakumar Yadav came to bat, rather the bowling all-rounders of the team were promoted. Apart from wicketkeeper Hardik Tamore, Suryansh Shedge, Atharva Ankolekar and even Shardul Thakur and Tanush Kotian came out to bat first but star batsmen like Shreyas and Surya remained sitting in the dressing room. But this move backfired and Mumbai lost 6 wickets for just 67 runs.

Then Suryukmar Yadav was sent at number eight, but he too was out after scoring only 18 runs. At such a time, Shreyas himself finally came to bat at number 9 and saved the team from defeat. Iyer displayed his excellent form and scored 44 runs in just 20 balls and led the team to victory by 3 wickets. Iyer along with Kotian made an unbeaten partnership of 70 runs. Kotian also scored unbeaten 39 runs.

The question is why Shreyas decided to come at number 9? The main reason for this was to give opportunity to the rest of the batsmen of the team. Considering the small target, Mumbai decided to give batting opportunity to its middle order and lower middle order batsmen so that they could also prepare for the upcoming matches but this move did not work. In such a situation, the captain himself came at number 9 and achieved victory by hitting 4 fours and 3 sixes.