Shreyas Iyer to play for Lancashire in England’s upcoming One-Day Cup

Lancashire Cricket has announced the overseas signing of Indian international batsman Shreyas Iyer for the 2021 Royal London Cup. Iyer will arrive at Emirates Old Trafford on Thursday 15 July ahead of the start of the 50 over the tournament and will remain with the Red Rose for the duration of the month-long group stage. The top-order batsman is regarded as one of the most fluent stroke players in the Indian ranks and has played in 50 One-Day and T20 Internationals for his Country.

26-year-old Iyer is a star name of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and captained Delhi Capitals to the final last year crashing 519 runs – the fourth highest in the tournament – at a strike rate of 123. Following the conclusion of the last IPL, Iyer played in all three matches of India’s 2-1 ODI series victory in Australia and is currently part of the ongoing India series against England.

In total, Iyer has scored over 6,000 One-Day runs across his career so far hitting nine centuries. He averages just short of 45 in ODI cricket with eight fifties and a century to his name, since debuting in 2017.

The signing of Shreyas Iyer signals the latest step in Lancashire’s long association with Indian cricket, which stretches back more than 50 years when Indian International wicketkeeper-batsman Farokh Engineer joined the county in 1968. He would go on to become a Lancashire legend and now serves as a Vice-President of the Club. Since Engineer retired, four further Indian Internationals – Murali Kartik, Dinesh Mongia, V.V.S. Laxman and Sourav Ganguly – have represented the Red Rose with distinction.  In addition to this, legendary Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar hit his maiden Test Century at Emirates Old Trafford in August 1990.

Here is how Lancashire cricket welcomed Shreyas Iyer