The crowd in Kanpur Test were chanting '10 rupay ki pepsi, Iyer bhai sexy' for Shreyas Iyer.
India pacer Mohammed Siraj teased Shreyas Iyer while he wore a cap standing in front of a mirror. Iyer looked at Siraj and smiled when the latter repeated the lines chanted by the crowd for the India batter during Kanpur Test.
Iyer scored a hundred in the first innings of his debut Test match against New Zealand and followed it up with a half-century in the second innings. He became the seventh Indian player to get the Player of the Match award on his Test debut.
When the 26-year-old was batting on the first day of the recently concluded Test match, the crowd started chanting as a section of the fans chanted "10 rupay ki Pepsi, Iyer bhai sexy" from the stands.
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Siraj posted the video featuring Iyer on his Instagram story and said, "10 rupay wali Pepsi, Iyer bhai sexy" to pull his leg.
Here is the video:
Iyer, who got his Test cap from the legendary Sunil Gavaskar, became the 16th Indian to score a century in his debut Test. He scored 105 runs in the first innings, and 65 runs in the second innings when India needed it the most.
The first Test match ended in a draw in Kanpur, and India were very close to winning it. They couldn't take the last wicket of New Zealand and the visitors ended the Test match on 165/9 in the second innings.