Shreyas Iyer unlikely to be available for Sri Lanka tour yet to recover from shoulder injury

IND vs SL | It is difficult for India's young batsman Shreyas Iyer to play in Sri Lanka tour. Iyer is unlikely to be fit for the Sri Lanka tour. In the absence of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, his name was being discussed for captaincy in this tour. Apart from him, Shikhar Dhawan and Hardik Pandya were in the captaincy race for this limited overs series. Now one of Dhawan and Pandya is likely to be made captain.

Iyer suffered a shoulder injury while fielding in the home series played against England played this year. He then underwent surgery on 9 April. After this, his injury is expected to take three months to fully recover. Because of this, Iyer, who captained Delhi Capitals due to injury due to injury due to injury in Sri Lanka tour, was ruled out of IPL 2021. In his place, Rishabh Pant was leading the team before the postponement of IPL 2021.

According to a report by The Hindu, the BCCI medical staff has spoken to the team management as well as the national selectors regarding his injury. All of them are of the opinion that the goal of Iyer's return should be the T20 World Cup. The tournament is expected to start in October, by then, Iyer will not only recover from his injury but he will also regain fitness by then. India has to leave for Sri Lanka tour to play 2 ODIs and 2 T20 matches against Sri Lanka. The series will be played from July 13 to 27. According to the information, all the matches will be played in Colombo.

Significantly, under the captaincy of Iyer, Delhi Capitals reached the final of IPL 2020. The league was postponed on 4 May following Corona's entry in the IPL 2021 BioBus. Iyer will be hopeful that he will be able to play for Delhi in the event of the tournament being restarted at the end of the year. Delhi topped the point table in IPL 2021 before the IPL was postponed.