From Hospital Bed To Test Debut, Shreyas Iyer Has Come A Long Way In 2021

From hospital bed to Test debut, it's been a roller-coaster ride for Shreyas Iyer. Cricketers getting injured are not a new thing, but recovering from injury and getting a Test cap is a good achievement for anyone.

Iyer posted a video on Instagram on Tuesday, in which he shared visuals of his treatment. And then he showed pictures of a photoshoot in Test jersey.

Iyer knows better than anyone what he has achieved, perhaps this could be the reason he got emotional when he kissed the Test cap.

The tryst with Kanpur is not new for Iyer. In 2019 he saved the Mumbai Ranji team with his gritty knock of 75 against the formidable attack of Pravin Kumar, Ankit Rajpoot, and Piyush Chawal. Now he got his Test cap at the same venue where he announced his arrival for the Red-ball cricket.

In fact, the Test cap looked in his grasp but eluded him on a number of occasions. In March 2017, he was called up as Virat Kohli's replacement for the fourth and final Test against Australia in Dharamsala but missed the Test cap by a whisker.

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Now after four years, he finally got the moment, a moment that will take some time to sink.