Rishabh Pant Accident Live Updates: DDCA President Shyam Sharma Provides Latest Update on Cricketer's Health

DDCA president Sharma said the future plan for Pant’s treatment will be decided by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

“The future plan of the treatment will be decided by the BCCI. BCCI are the one authorised to decide this. I went out of courtesy as a family as Rohan Jaitley said me to go and meet him. Rishabh Pant is just like our kid and boosts his morale of him and see what the situation is,” he said.

Rohit Sharma and several India players in constant touch with the doctors in hospital who are treating Rishabh Pant. (According to Indian Express)

Rohit Sharma from Maldives spoke to the doctors who are treating Rishabh Pant. (Reported by Indian Express).

A report in Cricbuzz claims “It is learnt that before he left for Derhadun, a friend of Pant advised him not to drive alone but Pant insisted that he would be able to manage. The crash happened in the early hours of Friday (December 30) between Manglaur and Narsan in the Haridwar district.”

Bus conductor Paramjit Singh said – “The question never arises why we did (Help Rishabh Pant). It could happen to us someday. My parents have given me that culture that we should help the needy. If a passenger says he has no money, I let him travel. Who knows this happens to me”.

DDCA director said, “if required we’ll shift Rishabh Pant to Delhi and chances are high that we’ll airlift him to Delhi for plastic surgery”

Dr Qamar Azam, who looks after sports injury department at AIIMS-Rishikesh, said, “Pant will take at least three to six months to recover from the ligament injury. And if it’s severe, he may take more time. Further evaluation can be based on his detailed injury report.” (To TOI)

“Shame on you for posting images and videos of someone who is hurt and unable to decide whether they want that out there. They have family and friends who were terribly affected by those images,” she wrote on her Instagram story on Friday evening.

With some of the experts ruling him out for at least 3 months, there are question marks over his prospects for the upcoming IPL 2023 and the Border Gavaskar Trophy set to take place in February.

“When he was brought to our hospital, he was fully conscious and I spoke to him. He wanted to surprise his mother and was going back home,” Dr Nagar told PTI.

An AIIMS Rishikesh expert in Times of India said, “Rishabh Pant will at least take 3-6 months to recover from ligament injury. It can be even more if it’s severe”.

Cricbuzz also reports that “before he left for Derhadun, a friend of Pant advised him not to drive alone but Pant insisted that he would be able to manage.”

The crash happened in the early hours of Friday (December 30) between Manglaur and Narsan in the Haridwar district.

Devendra Sharma, Pant’s coach, told Cricbuzz that the family was briefed of Pant’s condition, which is stable but requires long-term treatment. The ligament injury on his knee needs treatment and the BCCI has advised the Max Hospital in Dehradun not to undertake it immediately.

Rishabh Pant will be flown to Delhi or Mumbai in the next 24 hours where the next course of treatment will be decided, says report.

A Network 18 reporter has confirmed that Pant was visiting Roorkee to surprise his mother. Pant usually stays at his Gurugram residence, but since his mother was in Roorkee, he wanted to surprise her for the New Year.

Uttrakhand DGP said – “People who helped Rishabh Pant, Haryana roadways bus driver Sushil Kumar and local peoples will be rewarded and honoured under the ‘Good Samaritan’ scheme of GOI”