Rishabh Pant: Indian cricket star injured in automobile crash


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Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant has been hospitalized after being injured in a automobile crash within the northern state of Uttarakhand on Friday.

The state’s chief minister, Pushkar Singh Dhami, confirmed the information on Twitter and wished Pant, 26, a “speedy restoration”.

The automobile Pant collided with a partition wall and caught hearth within the early hours of Friday morning, the CNN subsidiary CNN Information-18 reported, citing the police.

The wicket-keeper’s batsman is ‘secure and will probably be scanned’, based on Secretary of the Board of Management for Cricket India Jay Shah.

“My ideas and prayers are with Rishabh Pant as he fights his method again to restoration,” Shah tweeted. “We’re carefully monitoring his progress and can present him with the required assist.”

Pant is considered one of India’s rising stars and was just lately named a model ambassador for his dwelling state of Uttarakhand, based on CNN Information-18.

Quite a lot of cricketers took to Twitter to want him a speedy restoration.

Former Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting mentioned he was considering of Pant. “I hope you’re on the mend and again in your ft quickly,” he wrote on Friday.

“Wishing Rishabh a really speedy and full restoration! Take care,” wrote Gautam Gambhir, who turned an Indian cricketer and politician.

Harsha Bhogle, a distinguished Indian cricket commentator, mentioned he “desperately hopes he is doing properly and recovering quickly”.