Now, I can invite Pravin sir home for dinner: Shreyas Iyer

Pravin Amre

Shreyas Iyer on Friday earned the right to invite his coach Pravin Amre for dinner at his home, having fulfilled a condition the former India player had imposed on his protege, by scoring a hundred on Test debut.

Long before Iyer marked his maiden Test with a century, Amre had told him that he would "only come to your place for dinner if you score a [Test] century".

"So after today's game, not game, basically after today's century, I'll message him and invite him for dinner," quipped Iyer at the end of the second day's play in the opening Test against New Zealand.

Iyer became the 16th Indian batter to score a hundred on his Test debut, joining an illustrious list which includes the legendary Lala Amarnath, Gundappa Viswanath, and BCCI president Sourav Ganguly among others.

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Back in 1992

Amre, who also scored a century on his Test debut, way back in 1992 against South Africa, has been coaching Iyer. "Whenever I go for training, Pravin sir says that you have achieved a lot in your life, you have been captain of an IPL [Indian Premier League] team, you have scored so many runs, but that was in white-ball cricket.

"But your main achievement would be when you receive the Test cap and I am sure he would be really happy when I received it," Iyer said at the virtual post-day press conference.

He also felt that all the congratulatory messages that he received, took him to his initial playing days. "I did not think that I lost an opportunity, I think in a way that I did not get an opportunity. Because, even though I was injured, I was in good shape and also in U-19 I was in a good frame of mind.

‘A different feeling'

"Now I got an opportunity in Tests and in the first one, I scored a hundred, that feeling is different and I cannot express it."

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