Shreyas Iyer century: Twitter reactions on Shreyas Iyer’s century on Test debut vs New Zealand

Shreyas Iyer century: The debutant Indian batter became successful in converting his maiden half-century into a century.

During the second day of the first Test of the ongoing New Zealand’s tour of India in Kanpur, debutant batter Shreyas Iyer has become the 16th Indian cricketer to score a century on Test debut.

Iyer, who has followed his Mumbai teammate Prithvi Shaw in this list among Indian batters, is overall the 112th batter to achieve this feat after he reached the three-figure mark at the Green Park on Friday.

Resuming from his overnight score of 75* (136), finding runs on Day 2 didn’t seem to be a daunting task for Iyer. After all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja started proceedings with a maiden over, Iyer hit his first ball of the day for a boundary. Facing the pick of the Kiwi bowlers in Kyle Jamieson from yesterday, Iyer hit another boundary off him in the first over itself.

Jamieson, who bowled mixed lengths to Iyer in his first spell today, continued to concede three more boundaries against him as the 26-year old player put a stamp of authority from the word go.

It was eventually on the first delivery of the 92nd over when Iyer ran a couple of runs off Jamieson to complete his maiden Test century needing only 21 deliveries to achieve the milestone on the second day.

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