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Ashwin on batter’s missed hundred opportunity vs Gujarat Titans

Ashwin on batter’s missed hundred opportunity vs Gujarat Titans

With Punjab Kings opening their campaign in this year’s IPL with a 11-run win over Gujarat Titans at Ahmedabad on Tuesday night, the spotlight was on Kings’ captain playing a knock of x runs off. While Iyer missed his hundred, the 30-year-old earned praise for giving the strike to Shashank Singh and not thinking about his hundred in the game. Singh would score 23 runs off the six balls as Kings set a target of 244 runs for Titans. Kings then won the match by 11 runs and former Indian spinner Ravinchandran Ashwin heaped praise on Iyer’ selfless act. Ashwin also shared how if Punjab Kings would have ended on 233 with Shreyas scoring the hundred and Titans chasing the target, the bowlers would have been blamed. “If Shreyas Iyer scored his hundred and PBKS ended with 233, and GT chased it down with a ball to spare, we would have blamed the bowlers for not defending the target. It is not like that now, 230 is not the new 180 in T20. It is …