Former BCCI chief selector MSK Prasad said that Shreyas Iyer was first prospect while searching for the next Indian Captain across all formats.
Prasad said Iyer had a pretty good record while captaining India A.
"If you go back to the stats, in the last two years, when we were at the helm, Shreyas Iyer led the side (India A). I think out of 10 series that India A played, we won 8. In the majority of those series, Shreyas led the side. He has been in and around as captain. He has been groomed for that particular slot. We felt that post Virat, post Rohit Sharma, you needed someone to lead the side that's when we started thinking about Shreyas Iyer or Rishabh Pant. But even ahead of Pant was Iyer as a captain,"
Only if Iyer hadn’t gone through a continuous string of injuries, he would have been named the Indian Captain by now.
However Prasad said Iyer is young and has a huge chance of maturing into a very good leader and leading India in the future.
I have no idea what BCCI is planning to do with Iyer. They dropping him from contract list is a big setback for a player of his caliber. I see him leading India into the next ICC ODI tournament.
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