India captain Shreyas Iyer received the team’s Impact Player of the Series medal after the five-match T20I series against the West Indies ended in a 2-2 draw, with the series decider washed out at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Saturday.
The BCCI shared a dressing-room video of the medal presentation on Sunday, showing India’s training assistant Nuwan Seneviratne presenting the award to Iyer and praising his contributions with both bat and in the field.
“The Impact medal goes to someone who scored his first T20I hundred. Only a few players in India have scored hundreds in all three formats, and he’s leading from the front, even in the field. The award goes to Shreyas Iyer,” Seneviratne said in the video posted on bcci.tv.
The BCCI also shared the clip on its social media accounts with the caption:
“Rain, runs, and some dressing room BTS. Summing up the series decider, ft. the Impact Player of the Series medal presentation.”
Iyer had an impressive outing with the bat, finishing as the series’ third-highest run-scorer with 181 runs in five innings at an average of 45.25 and a strike rate of 205.68. His maiden T20I century in the series opener in Lucknow also made him the seventh Indian men’s cricketer to register centuries in all three international formats.
India won the opening and third match, while the West Indies bounced back to claim the second and fourth game. With the ,the series ended level at 2-2, with both teams sharing the trophy.
India will now travel to New Zealand for a five-match T20I series, beginning with the first two games at Hagley Oval in Christchurch on October 22 and 24.
The third match will be played at Basin Reserve in Wellington on October 27, before the teams head to Eden Park in Auckland for the fourth T20I on October 30. The series will conclude at Seddon Park in Hamilton on November 1.