Star India batter Shreyas Iyer is recovering much faster than expected and might be back on the field sooner than the doctors predicted after the extent of his injury was revealed, according to a report in The Times of India.

On Tuesday, BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia told TOI that Iyer ‘recovered faster than the doctors had anticipated’.

Iyer, who sustained a spleen laceration while taking a catch during the third and final ODI against Australia at the SCG last week, is now stable and has been moved out of the ICU.

“ Shreyas is much, much, much better. His recovery has been much faster than the doctor expected. I am in regular touch with Dr Rizwan (Khan, Indian team doctor who stayed back with Iyer to assist with his treatment at the Sydney hospital)," Saikia said while

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