Shreyas Iyer was having a wonderful time for the Indian team establishing himself at the no.4 spot in the white ball XI. However, he suffered a brutal injury during the first ODI between India and England in March earlier this year which kept him out of action for a few months.

He even missed the first half of the IPL 2021 where he was supposed to turn out for the Delhi Capitals and his franchise named Rishabh Pant as the captain in his absence.

Now that he has fully recovered from his shoulder injury, for which he had undergone surgery as well, Iyer talked about his current status and how hard it was for him to deal with the injury setback at a wrong time in his career when he was doing well with the bat.

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"Currently I'm feeling amazing, the journey was awesome to be honest. I never hesitated for a while but right after the injury I was sulking a bit and I didn't know what to do. I went into the dressing room crying and it took me a while to digest it. But at the end of the day, you need to go through all of it. It is a setback which you have to push back and come back strong," Iyer told India Today.

Iyer further said that he found it very "hard to digest" the nature of his injury and struggled to cope with it in the initial days of that phase.

"When I realized that I had to go under the knife, it was really hard for me to digest. The way I was training prior to my injury, I was at the highest level. And suddenly this freak injury happened and I understand how it happened. But it's a part and parcel of an athlete's career so I just accepted that fact," Iyer said.