Players getting injured during a cricket match is not a big or new thing. Sometimes injuries occur while fielding and sometimes the bowler slips in his run-up. Sometimes it is a bouncer that injures the batsman. But it happens rarely, when a player injures his own teammate, that too while batting. Something similar happened with Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer in IPL 2026, when his teammate Cooper Connolly hit a powerful shot, which hit Iyer and he writhed in pain.
gujarat titans This scene was seen in the match played against in Mullanpur. In response to the target of 163 runs set by Gujarat, Punjab lost 2 wickets for 83 runs. At such a time, Punjab captain Shreyas Iyer came to the crease, while on the other side, young Australian batsman Cooper Connolly was scoring runs rapidly. This was Connolly’s debut match in IPL. A good partnership was being formed between the two, when this accident happened.
Iyer injured by Connolly’s shot
In the 12th over of the innings, left-handed batsman Connolly hit a very fast and straight shot on the 5th ball of Gujarat spinner Rashid Khan. The ball was in the air and came out so fast that Punjab captain Iyer, who was on non-strike, did not get a chance to recover and it hit his left hand hard. The impact of the ball was so strong that Iyer screamed in pain and fell on the field. In such a situation, the match stopped immediately and the medical team came and examined. Ultimately, ‘magic spray’ was applied to his hand to relieve the pain, due to which the game started again after 5-6 minutes.
out on the next ball
Iyer recovered and got ready to play but on the very first ball of the next over he came to bat, he was out. Now was it the effect of this injury or was there some other reason but Iyer’s shot on the ball of Prasidh Krishna could not cross the long off boundary and he got out and returned to the pavilion. Iyer scored 18 runs in 11 balls, which included 2 excellent sixes.