Shreyas Iyer

Shreyas Santosh Iyer (born 6 December 1994) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian team as a right-handed middle-order batter. He is currently the vice captain of the Indian cricket team in the ODI format. He also plays for Mumbai in domestic cricket and captains the Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League. He was a part of the Indian team that won the 2025 Champions Trophy. Iyer scored a century in his debut Test match and a half-century in the second innings against New Zealand in November 2021, thus becoming the first Indian player to achieve the milestone. He played for the India Under-19s at the 2014 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He was part of the Indian team at the 2023 Cricket World Cup, and scored a century against New Zealand in the semi-finals. He was a member of the Indian squad that won the 2023 Asia Cup. Iyer captained the Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL from 2022 to 2024, and won his first IPL title as captain in 2024. He made headlines when the then Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals) bought him at the 2015 IPL auction for ₹2.6 crore (about US$416,000). He made 439 runs that season and won the IPL Emerging Player of the Year award. Over the next six seasons, he became a mainstay of the side and its captain, making over 400 runs in four different seasons. He later broke the record for most expensive player in the IPL after the Punjab Kings bought him for ₹26.75 crore. That record was broken in the same auction when the Lucknow Super Giants bought Rishabh Pant for ₹27 crore. Shreyas Iyer was named as ICC Men's Player of the Month twice in February 2022 and March 2025 for his performance during India’s triumphant Champions Trophy 2025.