Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Shreyas Iyer taken for scans after complaining about back pain in Ahmedabad Test
Border-Gavaskar Trophy: India batter Shreyas Iyer has been taken for scans after he complained of back pain at the end of third day's play. Iyer returned to international cricket from injury in the BGT 2023.
In Short
- Shreyas Iyer has been taken for scans in Ahmedabad Test
- The BCCI confirmed of the development on Sunday, 12 March
- Shreyas Iyer returned from injury in the 2nd Test match of the BGT 2023
India batter Shreyas Iyer was sent for scans after complaining about back pain following third day's play in the Ahmedabad Test match. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed the development on Sunday morning, 12 March after the batter did not take the field after the dismissal of Ravindra Jadeja in the morning session of the game.
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Iyer returned to international cricket after an injury layover during the New Zealand ODI series. Iyer had spent time in rehab at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore. The batter was deemed not fit for the opening Test match of the series where Suryakumar Yadav was given a debut. Iyer's problems with the back are not new. India head coach Rahul Dravid had earlier said that if fit, Shreyas Iyer is an automatic choice in the playing XI.
The batter, ahead of the third Test match at Indore had claimed that he was fully fit and the back issue was a thing of the past.
"Back injury has disappeared completely and I am happy. I feel that the rate with which I worked in the gym, and the practice sessions and everything that I was doing for the last 3-4 months caused it. I was managing to play with it for a while, because of which it aggravated. I was running and stuff in the gym, so I was probably doing exercises in the gym which I did not have to do," Iyer had said earlier.
Iyer is one of India's best batter against spin and was a key reason why India were not defeated in the Bangladesh Test series, late in 2022. Iyer had combined with Ravichandran Ashwin in saving the second Test match.