 "Shreyas Iyer's father kept son's photo holding BG Trophy as WhatsApp DP for four years")
[caption id=“attachment_10164471” align=“alignnone” width=“640”]  Shreyas Iyer of India celebrating his half century during day one of the 1st Test match between India and New Zealand held at the Green Park International Stadium in Kanpur on the 25th November 2021. Saikat Das / Sportzpics for BCCI[/caption] Mumbai: Shreyas Iyer’s father Santosh has a unique WhatsApp DP: his son donning the whites and holding the 2017 Border Gavaskar Trophy. The reason: he always wanted to see his son play the traditional format of the game, and when he eventually did for the first time on Thursday, Iyer senior’s joy knew no bounds. Iyer made his Test debut memorable with an unbeaten half-century to rescue India from a precarious position on the first day of the first match against New Zealand at the Green Park in Kanpur. “Yeah, this DP (of Shreyas holding Border Gavaskar Trophy) was always close to my heart because when he was playing against Australia, he was a stand-by in place of Virat Kohli, in Dharamshala,” Santosh told.
He always wanted to see his son play the traditional format of the game, and when he eventually did for the first time on Thursday, Iyer senior’s joy knew no bounds
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