India cricketer Rishabh Pant has met with car accident, suffers gruesome injuries to his forehead and leg

Rishabh Pant (Source: Twitter)

Rishabh Pant, India's wicketkeeper-batter, has sustained gruesome injuries. The incident happened in his hometown Roorkee, Uttarakhand. He has been taken to hospital. VVS Laxman, the chief of the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru, said on Twitter that Pant is "out of danger".

The accident took place in the wee hours on Friday morning. When Pant returned to New Delhi. He was moved to a local hospital and shortly after, he was taken to a bigger private hospital in Dehradun. "Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant's car met with an accident at around 5:30 am," Director General of Uttarakhand Police, Ashok Kumar, was quoted as saying by NDTV.

The incident had taken place at Mohammedpur Jat near Roorkee. According to what Pant had said, he dozed off while driving and as a result, the car collided with the divider and caught fire. He was moved to the Roorkee hospital from where he has now been shifted to Dehradun.

CCTV footage when cricketer #RishabhPant's car met with an accident. pic.twitter.com/q8Rd2BUDlf

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CCTV footage when cricketer #RishabhPant's car met with an accident. pic.twitter.com/q8Rd2BUDlf

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Rishabh Pant was to go to the NCA ahead of the Australia series

According to what Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar told India Today , he was driving his BMW which caught fire after hitting the divider. He was alone in the car and broke the window to escape the burning vehicle.  According to the doctors, He has sustained injuries on his forehead and leg. He was severely injured after the accident.

Pant has been in two shades concerning his cricket. The left-handed batter has been in roaring form in Test match cricket he recently scored a game-changing 93 in the second Test against Bangladesh which gave India a 2-0 series win. He was going to come down to Bengaluru to the National Cricket Academy ahead of the series against Australia in February.

The wicketkeeper batter has not had the best of times in limited overs cricket and T20s as he has been going through a lean patch of form. He had a 20-20 World Cup to forget in Australia as he scored nine runs in two innings at an average of 4.50 and a strike rate of 100.00.