A photo allegedly depicting Indian cricketer Shreyas Iyer smiling and posing on a hospital bed has circulated widely on social media, with many users connecting it to his recent hospitalisation after an injury sustained during the India– Australia match in Sydney .

(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here .)

Is the claim true?: No, the claim is false. This image is old from 2021. Iyer shared this image when he underwent a shoulder surgery.

What we found: At first, we ran a Google reverse image on the image which led us to a report by the Hindustan Times from April 2021 . It featured the same image as the viral photo.

The report noted that Iyer shared an update about his shoulder injury which he sustained during the then India-England One Day International

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