India’s in-form batter, Shreyas Iyer rejoined the squad ahead of the Delhi Test against Australia, which is scheduled to commence on Friday. The BCCI had sent Iyer to the National Cricket Academy (NCA), Bengaluru days ahead of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy opener in Nagpur as a precautionary measure. Iyer will be making comeback from a back injury, which had also ruled him out of the New Zealand ODIs.
The BCCI released an official statement in this regard, which read: “Shreyas Iyer has successfully completed his rehab at the National Cricket Academy following his back injury and has been cleared by the BCCI Medical Team. Shreyas will join the squad in New Delhi ahead of the second Test of the Mastercard Australia tour of India for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.”
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Shreyas Iyer has been missing the action for more than a month now, but his addition will tempt the management to give him a chance in the middle order. If that is the case, then there are certain chances that he will replace the T20 specialist Suryakumar Yadav in the middle order. Unlike Iyer, Suryakumar failed to notch such figures and was packed for 8 by Nathan Lyon.
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Stamping his authority right from the word go, Shreyas Iyer has been a regular feature in India’s playing XI, especially in Test and ODIs. The batter has so far played seven Tests, and he has already amassed 624 runs. Even during India’s last Test series, which was against Bangladesh in December last year, the Mumbaikar scored 80-plus knocks in both matches.
In fact, he stitched a crucial 71-run partnership with R Ashwin for the eighth wicket in the fourth innings of the Dhaka Test, thus rescuing India from a reeling position while the team was completing the 145-run chase to complete a clean sweep.
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India’s squad for second Test: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KS Bharat (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), R. Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Suryakumar Yadav
