Team India had made a clean sweep of Sri Lanka in the T20 series and is now gearing up to clean it up in the Test as well. The T20 series was very memorable for Team India.
The performance of a player of Team India in this series was very historic, whose reward has now been given to this player by the ICC. The ICC has released the latest T20 rankings, in which Rohit’s stalwart has got a lot of advantages.
Huge jump in T20 rankings
India had registered a one-sided victory in the T20 series against Sri Lanka. The hero of this victory was Shreyas Iyer. This series was very special for Iyer. Iyer got a chance to bat in all three matches. In these three matches, Shreyas’s bat scored consecutive half-centuries.
None of the Sri Lankan bowlers failed to get Iyer out in this series. Shreyas has now got the benefit of this in the ICC T20 rankings. Iyer has jumped 27 places in the latest ICC T20 rankings. For the first time, he has reached the top 20 in the ICC T20 rankings. He is currently in 18th place. Before the series, he was at number 45.
Well done to Iyer’s bat
Shreyas Iyer performed brilliantly in this series against Sri Lanka and scored a lot of runs. Iyer scored 204 runs in the three-match series at a strike rate of 174.36. Iyer was not dismissed even once during this series and also became the highest run-scorer for India in the three-match T20 International series. He followed Virat Kohli in this matter.
Special Record under his Name
Shreyas hit a hat-trick of half-centuries in this series. He scored an unbeaten 57 in the first T20 match, scored an unbeaten 74 in the second match and added an unbeaten 73 in the third match.
He became the fourth Indian batsman to hit a hat-trick of half-centuries in T20Is. Before Shreyas, Virat Kohli has done this work thrice, while KL Rahul has twice and Rohit Sharma has scored a hat-trick of half-centuries once. Shreyas was also adjudged Player of the Series for this strong performance.