New Delhi, March 8 -- Shreyas Iyer might not have got a hundred or a Player of Match award but deserves a lot of credit for Virat Kohli's success in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, according to former spinner Ravichandran Ashwin. While Virat Kohli is topping the run-getter's charts among the Indians with 217 runs from four games, Shreyas Iyer is marginally behind with 195 runs from the same number of games.

The Mumbai batter has been India's best no.4 batter in the last few years, thus solving one of the most difficult puzzles in the batting line-up. From ODI World Cup in 2023 to Champions Trophy 2025, there's hardly any game, that Shreyas Iyer has not been able to impress.

Showering praise on the right-hander, Ravichandran Ashwin explai...