India, March 26 -- This is Shreyas Iyer's 10th IPL season and he has never got a century. In his first match of IPL 2025, which was also his debut as the Punjab Kings captain after being bought for a whopping Rs.26.75 crore in the mega auction last year, he was on 90 off 38 balls at the of the 17th over against Gujarat Titans at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The wait for his maiden IPL century after playing 117 matches was about to get over. But it didn't. In the next three overs, Shreyas, who was striking at 230, got to play only four overs. He remained unbeaten on 97. But neither did it hurt him nor PBKS because the batter, Shashank Singh, who played most of the last three overs, scored at a strike rate of 275.

Shreyas, who h...