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Rajat and Nishu, the men who admitted India wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant to the Saksham Hospital before being shifted to Max Dehradun, revealed how they rescued the southpaw after his car collided with a divider before catching fire during the weekend. “We saw him first and his condition was serious. We provided him help. A […]

1983 World Cup-winning skipper Kapil Dev has taken a jibe at India wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant after he had a miraculous escape during the weekend following a horror car crash near Roorkee in Uttarakhand. Kapil Dev who is known for his harsh assessments, was critical of the cricketer’s decision to drive the vehicle himself during […]

India opener Ishan Kishan’s reaction to his national teammate Rishabh Pant’s horrific car crash has gone viral on social media. Surprisingly, Ishan Kishan wasn’t aware of Rishabh Pant’s accident and only got to know about it during Jharkhand’s Ranji Trophy game against Services. The whole episode was caught on camera after fans informed him about […]

The legendary VVS Laxman’s tweet, hailing the bus driver who saved India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant’s life following his horrific car crash on Friday morning, has gone viral on social media. “Gratitude to #SushilKumar, a Haryana Roadways driver who took #RishabhPant away from the burning car, wrapped him with a bedsheet and called the ambulance. We […]

Actress Urvashi Rautela is being blasted for her latest post on cricketer Rishabh Pant following the India wicketkeeper batter’s accident on Friday morning. The Bollywood starlet wrote on Twitter, “I pray for you & your family’s wellbeing.” While she didn’t mention Rishabh Pant’s name, netizens believed she was taking a swipe at the India cricket […]

In a massive setback to Team India and Rishabh Pant’s supporters, the wicketkeeper batter is set to stay out of action for the first six months of 2023 following a horrific car crash in Uttarakhand on Friday morning. Multiple media reports suggest that the left-handed explosive batter will certainly miss the crucial four-match Test series […]

Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) director Shyam Sharma has provided an important update regarding India wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant’s treatment in Dehradun. The young cricketer survived a near-fatal car crash on Friday morning when he was on his way to the Uttarakhand capital from Delhi. According to eyewitness accounts, his Mercedes Benz car first […]

A video has emerged of India wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant moments after the shocking crash that put him in hospital. The cricketer suffered severe injuries in the single-vehicle crash near Roorkee in Uttarakhand on Friday morning. https://twitter.com/NNsonukanojia/status/1608721220773744641   The 25-year-old had a narrow escape after his car rammed into a divider before catching fire on […]

The bus driver who saved Team India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant from his Mercedes car after it hit a road divider before catching fire near Roorkee on the Dehradun Delhi highway this morning has shared the untold story of the cricketer’s rescue from the site of the accident. Sushil Mann, who works for the state transporter, […]

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 […]

India head coach Rahul Dravid was mercilessly trolled after wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant was not included in the national squad for the upcoming T20I and ODI series against Sri Lanka. 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 […]

Twitter was flooded with memes after star India wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant was not included in the national squad announced to take on Sri Lanka in next month’s T20I and ODI series. Rishabh Pant’s removal from India’s white-ball teams was received with mixed reactions on social media with some supporting his omission while others were […]

Team India fans were in for a rude shock on Tuesday after the national selectors left out wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant from the squad for next month’s T20Is and ODIs against Sri Lanka. In 2022, Rishabh Pant even led the Indian cricket team when senior pros like Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, and Hardik Pandya were […]

Fans erupted in joy after India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant made a stunning stumping to send Bangladesh batter Nurul Hasan back to the pavilion on Day 4 of the first Test between the two sides in Chattogram on Saturday. Rishabh Pant’s miracle stumping came after Axar Patel enticed Nurul Hasan out of the crease with a […]

India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant was among the top trends on Twitter on Saturday after he saved Virat Kohli from making a glaring error against Bangladesh on the fourth day of the opening Test in Chattogram. Needing 513 to win, Bangladesh openers Najmul Hossain Shanto and Zakir Hasan gave the hosts a solid start by adding […]

Fans hit back at former Pakistan captain Salman Butt who made controversial remarks about India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant. Salman Butt’s ‘insulting remarks’ against the explosive India wicketkeeper batter came after Rishabh Pant made 46 runs off 45 balls in India’s first innings of the ongoing opening Test against Bangladesh in Chattogram. Though Rishabh Pant’s knock […]

India batter Rishabh Pant’s love for Test cricket is no secret. The 25-year-old cricketer has been outstanding in the sport’s longest format and averages well over 43 with hundreds to his name in England, South Africa, and Australia, making him the first Indian wicketkeeper batter to do so. Though Rishabh Pant has been at the […]

The announcement of Cheteshwar Pujara’s appointment as Team India’s vice-captain didn’t go down well with the fans who lashed out at the BCCI for playing with the future of Indian cricket by taking such illogical decisions. After Virat Kohli stepped down as skipper at the start of this year, Rohit Sharma was appointed India captain […]

The appointment of veteran Cheteshwar Pujara as Team India vice-captain has been met with shock in the cricket-crazy country with both fans and former cricketers showing their dismay at the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) decision. The latest to criticize the Indian cricket board’s move is none other than Mohammad Kaif, the […]

Musicians Kaushiki Chakraborty and Purbayan Chatterjee have torn into India wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant after an advertisement featuring him seemed to insult Indian classical music. The advertisement made its television debut during the T20 World Cup in Australia in October. In the commercial for the fantasy sports platform Dream XI, Rishabh Pant could be seen […]

Former Pakistan cricket star Danish Kaneria has torn into India wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant, declaring his numbers in white-ball cricket were not impressive. Danish Kaneria went as far as to say that Rishabh Pant doesn’t deserve a place in India’s ODI and T20I sides and should be immediately sacked from the Rohit Sharma-led team. In […]

Former cricketer Saba Karim has issued an ultimatum to out-of-form India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant about performing in the upcoming ODIs against Bangladesh or else the team management should drop him. India will begin their month-long tour of Bangladesh with the three ODIs starting on December 4 in Mirpur followed by two Test matches. But it […]

Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt has blasted India captain Shikhar Dhawan for promoting Rishabh Pant at the expense of Suryakumar Yadav during the recent tour of New Zealand. According to Salman Butt, Rishabh Pant should have batted in the lower middle order, much below Suryakumar Yadav in both the T20Is and ODIs, but Shikhar Dhawan […]

Virat Kohli’s childhood coach Rajkumar Sharma has become the latest former cricketer to slam India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant who has not been among the runs of late. “Rishabh Pant’s on-field performances have not been satisfactory at all. It is very unfortunate, as he has been given a long rope by the team management. We all […]

India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant was irked by a question from noted cricket pundit Harsha Bhogle who appeared to have compared his red and white-ball numbers with the legendary Virender Sehwag. Harsha Bhogle’s questions came at a time when Rishabh Pant’s ongoing struggles in white-ball cricket ignited a massive debate about his place in Team India […]

The legendary Krishnamachari Srikkanth has lashed out at India wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant for wasting his opportunities and urged the national selectors to give him a break from the side. Krishnamachari Srikkanth’s comments have come at a time when Rishabh Pant has been going through a lean patch with the bat in white-ball cricket. In […]

Team India supporters are ripping into Rishabh Pant for his continuing failures in limited-overs cricket as he was dismissed cheaply in the first ODI against New Zealand on Friday. Not only the Men in Blue lost the match by seven wickets, but Rishabh Pant too could only make 15 runs in the contest. It was […]

With an abundance of talent in Team India’s ranks, some players miss out on occasions, and among the ones, to top, this unfortunate list is Sanju Samson. Most times, Sanju Samson isn’t included in the side because of Rishabh Pant. While Rishabh Pant has established himself as possibly India’s best wicketkeeper batter in Test cricket, […]

Fans of India wicketkeeper batters Rishabh Pant and Sanju Samson were engaged in an ugly war of words on Twitter after Wasim Jaffer excluded the latter from the national team’s probable playing XI for the first ODI game against New Zealand on Thursday. With the match scheduled to take place on Friday, Wasim Jaffer announced […]

Former India allrounder Reetinder Sodhi has torn into Rishabh Pant, calling him a “liability” in the national side’s T20I set-up following his twin failures in the recent New Zealand series. “He is becoming a liability for Team India. If it’s like this, then bring in Sanju Samson. End of the day, you got to take […]

India wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant was brutally roasted on social media after he flopped again in T20Is, this time in the final game of the three-match series against New Zealand in Napier. Sanju Samson supporters were particularly harsh on Rishabh Pant as the former was left out of India’s playing XI once more. Opening the […]

Team India fans went into a meme frenzy after wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant failed to fire against Zimbabwe at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in their last Group 2 game in the T20 World Cup on Sunday. Rishabh Pant finally made his first appearance in India’s final XI in Melbourne after captain Rohit Sharma chose to […]

Rishabh Pant supporters are slamming India head coach Rahul Dravid for his rigid stand against the explosive wicketkeeper batter. The social media fury against Rahul Dravid over Rishabh Pant’s non-inclusion in India’s playing XI has been mounting in the last few days because the team’s fans are concerned about India’s vulnerable middle order. https://twitter.com/RP17Fan/status/1588456666919751681 Ricky […]

Australia great Ian Chappell is furious with Team India’s selection in the ongoing T20 World Cup as he slammed skipper Rohit Sharma and head coach Rahul Dravid for picking Dinesh Karthik ahead of Rishabh Pant. Widely regarded as one of the most destructive batters in world cricket at the moment, Rishabh Pant has tasted immense […]

One of the toughest selection dilemmas that Team India has faced in the ongoing T20 World Cup is choosing between two wicketkeeper batters, veteran Dinesh Karthik and a young and explosive Rishabh Pant and on all three occasions so far captain Rohit Sharma and head coach Rahul Dravid have preferred the former ahead of Rishabh […]

KL Rahul’s string of poor scores in the ongoing T20 World Cup in Australia has led to severe criticism of the India vice-captain. Several former cricketers, including Wasim Jaffer, have called for his removal from India’s playing XI and voiced their support for Rishabh Pant’s inclusion in the side after Rohit Sharma and company’s defeat […]

India opener KL Rahul once again became a butt of jokes on social media following his third consecutive failure in the ongoing T20 World Cup in Australia. KL Rahul who made 4 and 9 in his two previous outings against Pakistan and the Netherlands, was dismissed for 9 off 14 balls against the Temba Bavuma-led […]

Team India batting coach Vikram Rathour is being slammed online after he threw his weight behind under-fire opener KL Rahul, saying that the Karnataka batter cannot be dropped based on two poor performances. It is pertinent to note that KL Rahul has flopped in both the matches India has played so far in the T20 […]

Bollywood actress Urvashi Rautela has been in the news lately for his comments about India cricketer Rishabh Pant. The model-turned-movie star recently posted a video on social media in which she could be heard saying “Aap bolo I love you…nahi pehle aap bolo I love you..ek baar boldo..bas ek baar boldoo,” and netizens believed that […]