‘Ton will do wonders for his confidence’
Updated On: 27 November, 2021 07:34 AM IST | Mumbai | R Kaushik
Batting great and ex-India captain Gundappa Viswanath hails Mumbai man Shreyas Iyer for three-figure score on Test debut just like he did in 1969 at Kanpur
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India’s Shreyas Iyer celebrates his century against New Zealand at Kanpur yesterday. Pic/AFP
Nearly 52 years to the day since Gundappa Viswanath capped his Test debut with a second innings hundred at Kanpur’s Green Park, Shreyas Iyer joined the maestro from Bangalore and 14 others in an exclusive club of Indian centurions on their maiden Test appearance.
The first of Viswanath’s 14 hundreds came on November 20, 1969, on the final day of the second Test against Australia and on the back of first innings duck. Iyer grabbed his opportunity at the first time of asking, with a fluent 105 on Friday to steer India to 345 in the first Test against New Zealand.
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