NEW DELHI: Star wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant is fit to play in the Indian Premier League from this month after being seriously injured in a car accident in 2022, the cricket board said on Tuesday.
Pant will return to the Delhi Capitals after last season and could play for India in the World Cup in the West Indies and the United States in June.
After 14 months of rehabilitation and recovery, Pant has “now been declared fit as a wicketkeeper-batsman” for the IPL, as posted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on X, formerly Twitter.
Pant crashed his Mercedes SUV north of New Delhi before dawn in December 2022. He suffered multiple injuries when the car hit a guardrail, overturned and caught fire.
The 26-year-old man was taken to hospital before being airlifted to Mumbai for further treatment and surgery.
Pant suffered multiple injuries, including a damaged ligament in his right knee, an injured wrist and ankle, and abrasions on his back, and has been on an intensive rehabilitation program ever since.
