India’s ODI vice-captain Shreyas Iyer, who was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a Sydney hospital after sustaining a spleen laceration, is stable and has been responding to messages over the phone, India’s T20I skipper Suryakumar Yadav said on Tuesday.

“We spoke to him. On the first day, when we got to know that he was injured, I called him, but I learnt he didn’t have his phone with him. Then I spoke to our physio, Kamlesh, who told me he was stable. On the first day, you can’t be sure of anything,” Suryakumar said ahead of the first T20I against Australia.

“We have been talking to him for the last two days. He has been replying. If he’s replying on the phone, it means he’s stable. The doctor is also with him, but he will remain under supervision for the next few days. So it

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