Ranji Trophy 2015/16: Team of the tournament

#2 Shreyas Iyer (Mumbai)

Shreyas Iyer pumped up after scoring a century (Source: Google)

It has been Shreyas Iyer’s dream season this year, and there’s not a single team that he has spared.

Iyer ended the season as its highest run-getter with 1321 runs from 18 innings, falling short of VVS Laxman’s 16-year old record for the most runs scored in a single Ranji season. Iyer’s runs have come in the form of big hundreds (he has scored seven this season) and a flurry of half-centuries. Some of those half-centuries could very well have been converted into hundreds had Iyer been selfish in his approach, but the quality of his performances has been underlined by the selflessness with which he made runs.

The extraordinary bit about Iyer’s batting has been the incredibly high run scoring rate (92.70) which has necessarily translated to a higher percentage of boundaries. Iyer in fact hit the most number of sixes in the competition.

With age on his side, and talent in his stride, things can only get better for the twenty something.