Shreyas Iyer is having the best of times in his career at the moment and recently captained the Punjab Kings to the final of the IPL 2025 but lost it against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru earlier this week.

For the first-time since 2014, the Punjab franchise made it to the final and it was skipper Shreyas who led from the front, both with the bat and with his impactful decisions as the leader of the pack. Iyer was PBKS' leading scorer with a tally of 604 in 17 matches.

He scored six half-centuries and his 87* in the Qualifier 1 against Mumbai Indians will be talked about for a long time. He almost single-handedly rescued PBKS against MI and took them over the line. Shreyas has achieved immense success lately in both IPL and domestic cricket. He led the Kolkata Knight Riders to the title win in the IPL 2024 and won multiple competitions with Mumbai in the domestic cricket.

Now, according to a report in The Indian Express, quoting 'one of Indian cricket's influential decision-makers,' the rise of Iyer as a great captain is being considered biggest takeaway from the IPL 2025.

"Right now he just plays ODIs but after this IPL we can't keep him out of T20 internationals and even Tests. Plus he also has now officially joined the white-ball captaincy race," the official was quoted as saying.

Currently, Rohit Sharma is the ODI captain while Suryakumar Yadav is the T20I captain. Shreyas Iyer has not been picked for India's Test series against England. Iyer's IPL season didn't end with the trophy but he well and truly established himself as the leader that India might need in the not-so-distant future.

Iyer became the third skipper after Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Rohit Sharma to captain an IPL franchise to three finals and he did it with three different teams in the last five years.

"Job is still half done, we have to win it next year," Iyer said after missing out on lifting his swcond successfive IPL title.