New Delhi: India’s Shreyas Iyer gestured for the best fielder’s medal after he took a brilliant diving catch to send Devon Conway for a nine-ball duck during their ODI World Cup 2023 match on Sunday at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala. The Indian team management has started acknowledging the fielding efforts in this World Cup with a medal after every match. Virat Kohli was the first recipient of the medal, followed by Shardul Thakur, KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja.
The incident happened on the third ball of the fourth over. Mohammed Siraj pitches fuller on the pads. The left-handed Conway flicks it pretty well but an alert Iyer gets low to his right at square leg to take an incredibly sharp catch. Iyer then gestured towards the fielding coach T Dilip asking for the medal for the best catch in this game.
One Of the Best Catch from Shreyas Iyer #INDvsNZ #ShreyasIyer pic.twitter.com/n0zBTZurba
— Abhishek Yadav (@iamabhishekky) October 22, 2023
Earlier, India skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl against New Zealand. India have made two changes, bringing in Suryakumar Yadav and Mohammed Shami in place of Hardik Pandya, who sustained an ankle injury in the match against Bangladesh earlier this week, and Shardul Thakur.
Dew will play a role on Sunday’s game and that’s what forced Rohit to send the opposition to bat first. “We were here training yesterday and felt a bit of dew comes in. Looks like a good pitch, we’ll back ourselves to chase.
“Quite important to keep the momentum going, forget what happened in the past. Need to be at it all the time. This is one place everyone wants to come and play, beautiful weather and nice stadium. Hardik isn’t available, so even Shardul misses out. We’ve got Shami and Surya coming in,” he added.
Playing XIs
India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (w), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj.
New Zealand: Tom Latham (w/c), Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Mitchell Santner, Matt Henry, Lockie Ferguson and Trent Boult.
