Shreyas Iyer’s snub from the Asia Cup 2025 left many cricket experts and fans baffled. The squad announcement by BCCI came with a lot of controversies because of the selections. Iyer’s presence in the middle order for Punjab Kings in IPL 2025 turned out like an anchor. With his matured batting and swift stroke-playing abilities, the Mumbai-born deserved to be in the Asia Cup squad. The Ajit Agarkar-led selectors panel chose Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, and Rinku Singh as their middle-order batters. Through his article we will compare the T20I stats of Iyer and Dube.

Shreyas Iyer vs Shivam Dube T20I stats comparison:

Shreyas Iyer:

Exclusion from the board’s central contract might have motivated Iyer to play the game in a more methodical, effective way. After marking his presence in domestic cricket, Shreyas left everyone stunned by leading Punjab Kings in the final of IPL 2025 as the captain. Before that, the batter made his comeback in ODIs for India, where he again did not let his followers get upset. Iyer not only evolved as a captain but also aged finely as a batsman. For Team India, the right-handed batsman. As of now, Iyer has played 51 T20Is for the Men in Blue and maintained an average of 30.66, for a total of 1,104 runs with a 136.12 strike rate. In the Twenty20 format, an average of 30 is considered good. He made his T20I debut back in 2017 and played his last match in the format on December 3, 2023. In that match, which was against Australia in Bengaluru, Iyer scored a brilliant 53-run innings for the winning cause. Since then, he has not gotten to play a single T20I game for India.

Iyer's T20I stats in brief

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Shivam Dube:

Dube marked his footprint in the T20I arena in 2019, a couple of years after Iyer’s debut T20I match. With Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Shivam quickly blossomed as a dependable middle-order. But, so far, his career is not so celebrated as Iyer’s. So far, the left-handed batsman has played 35 T20Is for Team India, scoring 531 runs at an average of 31.23. Notably, Dube’s batting average is slightly higher than Iyer’s T20I batting average. This year, in January-February, when India was facing England for a T20Is series, Dube played a couple of significant innings. In Pune, he scored 53, and in the next match, he contributed with a 30-run innings and clinched 2 wickets as well. Dube can contribute both with batting and bowling, while Iyer can contribute with batting and leadership qualities.

Dube's T20I stats in brief

Shreyas Iyer vs Shivam Dube T20I Stats Comparison: 

India's full squad for Asia Cup 2025:

Surya Kumar Yadav (C), Shubman Gill (VC), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (WK), Harshit Rana, and Rinku Singh.