Team India wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant suffered severe injuries in a horrific car crash in the wee hours of Friday morning and is being treated in Dehradun's Max hospital at the moment.
The news of Rishabh Pant's accident was broken by the Uttarakhand Police. Ashok Kumar, the Director General of Uttarakhand Police, said that Rishabh Pant's vehicle collided with a divider before catching fire near Roorkee while he was driving towards the Uttarakhand capital from Delhi.
“Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant's car met with an accident at around 5:30 am. The incident took place at Mohammedpur Jat near Roorkee. According to what Pant said, he dozed off while driving and as a result the car collided with the divider and caught fire. He was moved to the Roorkee hospital from where he has now been shifted to Dehradun,” DGP Ashok Kumar told reporters.
Later on, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) gave an update concerning the 25-year-old cricketer's health. As per the Indian cricket board's statement, Rishabh Pant has injuries on his forehead besides having suffered a ligament tear in his right knee. Luckily though he is out of danger and is responding well to the treatment.
“India wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant met with a car accident early on Friday morning near Roorkee, Uttarakhand. He was admitted to Saksham Hospital Multispecialty and Trauma Centre where he was treated for impact injuries. Rishabh has two cuts on his forehead, a ligament tear in his right knee and has also hurt his right wrist, ankle, toe and has suffered abrasion injuries on his back,” the BCCI statement mentioned.
“Rishabh's condition remains stable, and he has now been shifted to Max Hospital, Dehradun, where he will undergo MRI scans to ascertain the extent of his injuries and formulate his further course of treatment.”
“The BCCI is in constant touch with Rishabh's family while the Medical Team is in close contact with the doctors currently treating Rishabh. The Board will see to it that Rishabh receives the best possible medical care and gets all the support he needs to come out of this traumatic phase,” it added.
On the other hand, Max Dehradun's Medical Superintendent, Dr. Ashish Yagnik said that the cricketer was under evaluation but prima facie doctors treating him hadn't found any serious injuries at the hospital.
“He is under evaluation and a team of doctors is attending to him. Only after some tests can we tell more. As of now, he is stable and there is not much to worry about,” Ashish Yagnik said.
“A team of doctors is talking to him and based on what he is telling us about the injuries, he is getting evaluated. Prima facie, we did not find any serious injuries. Orthopaedic and plastic surgeons are attending him,” Ashish Yagnik noted.
Earlier this week, the national selectors left out wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant from the squad for next month's T20Is and ODIs against Sri Lanka.
While many expected his exclusion from the side named for the shortest format of the sport, his omission from the ODIs surprised almost everyone.
“The All-India Senior Selection Committee has picked India’s squads for the upcoming Mastercard Sri Lanka Tour of India to be held in January 2023. The tour comprises three T20Is and as many ODIs,” the BCCI press release said.
Besides the pocket dynamo, others dropped were veterans Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Shikhar Dhawan and Rishabh Pant's contemporary Sanju Samson.
Taken aback by the Chetan Sharma-led selection panel's move, Rishabh Pant's admirers went on to dub it a “truly shocking” decision.
While others claimed that it was “baffling” to see Rishabh Pant not being a part of India's ODI squad considering his numbers in the format are quite impressive in 2022.
The left-hander's axing came on the heels of growing criticism of his performances in white-ball cricket.
In recent days, many former cricketers, including Simon Doull, Aakash Chopra, Salman Butt, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, etc slammed his figures in limited-overs cricket.
“As of now everyone believes that he (Pant) is a special player, extremely talented, is an X-factor kind of cricketer, but he hasn't lived up to the reputation in white-ball cricket thus far,” Aakash Chopra said on his YouTube channel last month.
“In Tests, today also Rishabh Pant is not only India's but the world's best wicketkeeper-batter. Not many top-order batters have played more dynamic and impactful knocks than him, forget about a keeper. But the truth is that he has not done that good a job in ODIs and T20s considering the opportunities he has got,” the former India opener noted.
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