India, March 26 -- Former England captain Michael Vaughan admitted he was baffled watching Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer's thundering knock against Gujarat Titans on Tuesday in Ahmedabad as he realised the India star is not even part of the national T20 side. Iyer smashed an unbeaten 97 off 42 as Punjab won their season opener by 11 runs.

Priyansh Arya, making his debut for Punjab, got the team off to a brilliant start with his fiery 23-ball 47, before it was a Shreyas Iyer show at the Narendra Modi Stadium. He smashed five boundaries and nine sixes as Punjab amassed a match-winning total of 243 for five.

The cynosure of the knock, however, was Iyer sacrificing the opportunity to score his maiden T20 hundred. Amid single-handedly le...