Abhishek Nair, assistant coach of the former National Cricket Team of India, who recently dismissed the midway through his tenure by the BCCI, has made a massive revelation by incorporating Shreyas Iyer.
Abhishek Nair revealed that star batsman Shreyas Iyer was not well liked by BCCI chief selector Ajit Aggarkar and head coach Gautam Gambhir, which led to his non-selection in India’s Asia Cup 2025 squad.
Shreyas Iyer’s red-hot appearance was ignored by BCCI
Iyer has set the stage on fire since its return after all the central contract drama with the Control Board for Cricket in India (BCCI).
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He scored big runs for Mumbai in domestic cricket in all formats and then gave magical performance for India with bat in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
In the ICC Champions Trophy, he played an important role in India’s victory, ending as the team’s lead run-goldter, average 48.6 and 79.41 with 243 runs.
Iyer continued his good form in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 and played exceptionally well for Punjab Kings (PBK).
In his first term as the Punjab Kings Skipper, he took the team in the IPL final after a decade, with a wonderful average of 604 runs 50.33 and at an outstanding strike rate of 175.07.
I wanted to ask him (Agkar) how he (Iyer) is not one of the reserve players – Abhishek Nair
Many experts felt that Iyer was a certainty to play XI for the Asia Cup 2025 in India as its condition with the bat.
However, the BCCI Selection Committee did not place him in the 15-man squad for the Marki tournament, and was not nominated in Standbis.
The development released former Assistant Coach of India Abhishek Nair, who was completely surprised and wanted to personally ask Ajit Agkar to ask the reason behind Iyer’s snub.
Speaking on Star Sports, Nair said, “I wanted to ask him (Aagarkar) how he (Iyer) is not among the reserve players, if he is a strong contender like such? -Sometimes selection meetings and discussions that take place can be quite interesting, but I can’t fathom, I cannot understand,” I could not understand, “Nair said” Nair said “Nair said on Star Sports.
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Maybe Shreyas Iyer was not liked as someone else – Abhishek Nair
Abhishek Nair further said that the BCCI sent a message to Iyer and did not even nominate it in the store and realized that the batsman was not well liked by the decision making.
“It explains and sends a message to Shreyas Iyer that you are not in the plan of our 20-man scheme, because even if things don’t work, you are not going to the team,” Nair said.
“(In that case) either Ryan Parag will come or there will be someone else. The big question here is if they are looking at him from the T20 point of view. I always say this, selection, after a while, it happens that you prefer a little more than the other.
