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Former Indian keeper-batter and commentator Dinesh Karthik has stated he was disappointed not to see Shreyas Iyer, the middle-order Indian batter, in the Indian T20I squad and standby list for the Asia Cup 2025 campaign.
Notably, in the IPL 2025, Iyer was the sixth-highest run-scorer, accumulating 604 runs in 17 matches at an average of 50.33, a strike rate of 175.07, and six half-centuries. His best score was 97*, which came against the Gujarat Titans.
“After the squad is put, they also put five other standbys. Now, in that five standbys also Shreyas wasn’t there, and that didn’t sit well with me, which basically means they’re not looking at him for the near future, and that would mean for the World Cup. Because India finished the Asia Cup, they have a couple of bilaterals, and after that they have the World Cup, which I feel is very unfair,” Dinesh Karthik said at the India Today South Conclave
“And I think there is no way that he shouldn’t have missed those five players. He should have been part of the conversations in the lead-up to the T20 World Cup, and I really wish he makes it to that T20 World Cup because he deserves it,” he added.
Furthermore, Karthik also asserted that the Indian head coach Gautam Gambhir is going ahead with a few set of players and they are performing well for the Indian T20I team, winning 17 out of the last 20 games.
“Look, Shreyas has done everything and more a player can do. Let's park that aside. But if you see the last 20 matches that India have played since Gautam Gambhir has taken over, 17 they have won. So, as a coach, I'm assuming that he has certain players he's looking at who are delivering, who have delivered results for him. So, if he has to make the hard choice of leaving certain players out, I can understand,” he concluded.
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