• Record! Shreyas Iyer becomes fastest Indian cricketer to reach 1500 ODI runs

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    Record! Shreyas Iyer becomes fastest Indian cricketer to reach 1500 ODI runs
    Iyer has scored 721 runs in 14 innings in 16 games this year, averaging 60.08 with one century and six fifty-plus scores. His personal best is a 113*.

    Digital Desk: Indian middle-order batsman Shreyas Iyer broke the record for the fastest Indian to reach 1,500 runs in ODI cricket while maintaining an unbelievable level of consistency. Iyer achieved this feat on Wednesday in the second One-Day International between India and Bangladesh in Dhaka.

    The elegant batsman extended his unbeaten streak by scoring 82 runs off 102 balls at an 80.39 strike rate while hitting six fours and three sixes. Although India lost the game by five runs, the Men in Blue benefited from his knock and consistency. Iyer has scored 1,534 runs at an average of 49.48 in 38 games and 34 innings.

    In his ODI career to date, he has scored two hundreds and 14 half-centuries, with a top score of 113*. He has surpassed KL Rahul, who scored the first 1,500 runs in 36 innings, Shikhar Dhawan, who scored the milestone in 38 innings, and Virat Kohli.

    Iyer has scored 721 runs in 14 innings in 16 games this year, averaging 60.08 with one century and six fifty-plus scores. His personal best is a 113*. Among the nations that play Test cricket, he has scored the most runs in ODIs this year.

    In ODIs this year, MG Erasmus of Namibia has scored the most runs with 956 runs in 21 matches, in 20 innings, at an average of over 56, with one century and eight fifties. Iyer has scored the sixth most runs overall in ODIs in 2022. In ODI matches in 2022, the batter is batting first for India. This year, his two closest opponents from teh Indian team are Shikhar Dhawan (685 in 21 innings) and Shubman Gill (638 in 12 innings).