While presenting the best fielder award to Rishabh Pant, Ravi Shastri gets emotional
Ravi Shastri, who is the formal head coach of the Indian cricket team, has revealed that the news of the Rishabh Pant live-threatening car accident back in the year 2022 left him in tears, and it said even words when he saw the charismatic wicketkeeper in the hospital at that time. Pant met with an accident on the Delhi-Dehradun highway. On the night of December 30, 2022, his car caught fire, but he made a lucky escape even though his injuries were quite severe.
After a year of intense recovery and rehab, he returned to professional cricket during the Indian Premier League season 2024 and made his team India return this month for the ongoing T20 World Cup in America.
In a video posted by BCCI, Shastri said, “I had tears in my eyes when I read about his accident, and when I saw him in the hospital, it was even worse.”
Watch the video here.
He added while referring to the six-run victory of team India on Sunday, in which India made 42 runs, “and then for him to come back from there and be back in a zone playing one of the biggest games of all time, India versus Pakistan, is heartwarming.”