After ton on Test debut, Shreyas Iyer says he’s earned right to invite coach Pravin for dinner

Long
before
Iyer
marked
his
maiden
Test
with
a
century,
Amre
had
told
him
that
he
would
“only
come
to
your
place
for
dinner
if
you
score
a
(Test)
century”.

“So
after
today’s
game,
not
game,
basically
after
today’s
century,
I’ll
message
him
and
invite
him
for
dinner,”
quipped
Iyer
at
the
end
of
the
second
day’s
play
in
the
opening
Test
against
New
Zealand.

Shreyas
Iyer
makes
century
on
Test
debut:
Here’s
list
of
all
India
batsman
to
achieve
the
feat

Iyer
became
the
16th
Indian
batter
to
make
a
hundred
on
his
Test
debut,
joining
an
illustrious
list
which
includes
the
legendary
Lala
Amarnath,
Gundappa
Viswanath,
and
BCCI
president
Sourav
Ganguly
among
others.

Amre,
who
also
scored
a
century
on
his
Test
debut,
way
back
in
1992
against
South
Africa,
has
been
coaching
Iyer.

“Pravin
sir
obviously,
whenever
I
go
for
training,
he
keeps
on
saying
that
you
have
achieved
a
lot
in
your
life,
you
have
been
the
captain
of
an
IPL
team,
you
have
scored
so
many
runs,
this
and
that,
but
that
was
in
white-ball
cricket.

“But
your
main
achievement
would
be
when
you
receive
the
Test
cap
and
I
am
sure
he
would
be
really
happy
when
I
received
it,”
Iyer
said
at
the
virtual
post-day
press
conference.

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He
also
felt
that
all
the
congratulatory
messages
that
he
received,
took
him
to
his
initial
playing
days.

“I
didn’t
not
think
that
I
lost
an
opportunity,
I
think
in
a
way
that
I
did
not
get
an
opportunity.
Because,
even
though
I
was
injured,
I
was
in
good
shape
and
also
in
U19
I
was
in
a
good
frame
of
mind.

“Now
I
got
an
opportunity
in
Tests
and
in
the
first
one,
I
scored
a
hundred,
that
feeling
is
different
and
I
cannot
express
it.

“I
received
a
lot
of
messages
and
all
were
saying
that
this
is
an
achievement
and
this
is
the
best
thing
you
have
achieved
in
life
and
it
took
me
back
to
my
Mumbai
cricketing
days,
it
is
a
good
feeling,”
added
the
elegant
right-handed
batter.

According
to
Iyer,
his
father
Santosh
and
his
mother
have
been
the
reasons
for
his
success.

“My
dad,
he
obviously
loves
Test
cricket
the
most
and
to
give
him
this
gift
–
a
century
–
would
be
the
best
achievement
for
me
and
also
for
him
as
well
as
a
father.

“It
is
a
great
feeling
for
both
of
us
and
my
mom
and
dad,
they
have
been
really
supportive
throughout
my
journey
and
they
have
been
the
pillars
of
my
success
so
far,”
he
signed
off.

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vs
New
Zealand:
Iyer
senior
kept
son’s
photo
holding
BG
Trophy
as
WhatsApp
DP
for
four
years

He
became
the
second
batter
after
Viswanath
to
score
a
hundred
on
his
Test
debut
at
Kanpur.
The
26-year-old
is
also
the
third
Indian
to
score
a
hundred
on
debut
against
New
Zealand.

Arjan
Kripal
Singh,
who
achieved
the
feat
in
1955,
and
Surinder
Amarnath,
who
scored
a
hundred
against
the
Black
Caps
on
his
debut
in
1976,
are
the
other
two
Indians
to
have
achieved
the
same.

Iyer
is
also
the
third
successive
Mumbai
player
after
Rohit
Sharma
and
Prithvi
Shaw
to
slam
a
hundred
on
Test
debut.