India’s Rishabh Pant set to resume cricket career at IPL 2024
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Pant will play competitive cricket for the first time since sustaining multiple injuries in a car crash in 2022.
India’s wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant is fit to play in the Indian Premier League (IPL) starting this month after being seriously hurt in a car crash in 2022, the country’s cricket board has said.
After an extensive 14-month rehab and recovery process, Pant “has now been declared fit as a wicket-keeper batter” for the Twenty20 tournament, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said in a statement posted on X.
The 26-year-old plays for Delhi Capitals in the franchise tournament and is expected to take up wicketkeeping and batting duties when the 2024 season gets under way on March 22.
Delhi Capitals play their opening game against Punjab Kings a day later.