{"id":131661,"date":"2025-09-10T02:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131661\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:01:08","slug":"shreyas-iyers-shocking-revelation-i-was-paralysed-nerve-snapped-rod-in-my-back-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131661\/","title":{"rendered":"Shreyas Iyer’s shocking revelation: ‘I was paralysed, nerve snapped, rod in my back’ | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Shreyas NEW DELHI: Indian cricketer Shreyas Iyer<\/a> has revealed the extent of the back injury that nearly ended his career, disclosing that he suffered paralysis in one leg before making a successful return to the sport. The setback also cost him a place in the BCCI\u2019s central contract list.Two years ago, Iyer was hospitalised in England as his condition worsened, surviving on painkillers and cortisol injections while his spine and hip deteriorated.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo one can understand the pain I went through. I was totally paralysed in one leg. With spine surgery, you can place a rod in the back and still manage. But a snapped nerve, which is what I had, is really, really dangerous,\u201d Iyer told GQ India.The batsman recalled how the pain shot \u201call the way down to my tiny toe,\u201d calling the experience \u201chorrendous and scary.\u201dAfter surgery, Iyer needed a full year to recover, during which he slipped out of the central contract list. \u201cPeople see athletes as robots who must perform every game. They don\u2019t know what\u2019s happening behind the scenes,\u201d he said.Recently, Iyer\u2019s omission from India\u2019s Asia Cup<\/a> squad raised eyebrows, especially after he emerged as Punjab Kings\u2019 top scorer in IPL 2025.\u201cI can only control the controllable. I\u2019ll keep working on my skills and strength, and when the opportunity arises, I\u2019ll grab it with both hands,\u201d he added.His journey highlights not just the physical toll of elite sport, but also the resilience required to fight back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: Indian cricketer Shreyas Iyer has revealed the extent of the back injury that nearly ended his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[21425,19763,64,63,91251,740,31779,91253,91252,85],"class_list":["post-131661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-asia-cup","tag-asia-cup-2025","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bcci-central-contract","tag-cricket","tag-shreyas-iyer","tag-shreyas-iyer-central-contract","tag-shreyas-iyer-paralysed","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}