Rishabh Pant had major surgery on his knee after almost all of his ligaments were torn in a car crash on the Delhi-Dehradun highway on December 30 of last year while he was driving home. He is slowly but surely getting better. The wicketkeeper-batsman for India is still in a private hospital in Mumbai, but he should be released in the first week of February. Reports say that it could take him two months to start light training and four to six months to start strength training and full-fledged cricket practise. This means that Pant will definitely miss the Border-Gavaskar Trophy match against Australia and, most likely, the Indian Premier League.

In IPL 2023, he was supposed to be in charge of the Delhi Capitals. Even though the franchise hasn’t said anything official, it’s clear that only a miracle can make Pant lead DC this year. If that’s true, then who will be in charge of DC? Ricky Ponting, who played cricket for Australia and is now the head coach of the Delhi-based franchise, said it’s hard to find someone to replace someone like Pant.

“Those guys can’t be replaced,” Ponting told the ICC. “Players like that don’t grow on trees. We need a wicketkeeper-batsman to join the team as a replacement, and we are already looking for one.

Ponting, who gets along well with the aggressive left-handed batter, said that India will miss Pant a lot in the four-game series that starts on February 9.

“He’s probably one of the top six or seven Test batsmen in the world, right?” Ponting asked. “Pant is currently seventh in the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s Test Batting Rankings, making him India’s best batsman,” Ponting added.

The last time India beat Australia in Australia, Pant was a very important part of the team.

“When he first started, we probably all thought he would be a better T20 and one-day batsman than a Test batsman, but that hasn’t been the case. His play in Tests has been amazing. Even the upcoming four-Test series against Australia, we know how he played against them in Australia the last time. He would have been excited for that series, and everyone else would have been excited to see him play.

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Rishabh Pant Health Updates: Indian cricket team player Rishabh Pant can be airlifted in Delhi. On Friday, he had become a victim of a terrible car accident, in which his car was gutted, he is undergoing treatment at Max Hospital in Dehradun, where his condition is said to be stable. However, now speculation has started to bring him to Delhi. Actually, the team of Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) has gone to Max Hospital in Dehradun, where they will take stock of Rishabh Pant’s health, seeing that if needed, Pant will be airlifted to Delhi for plastic surgery.

DDCA director Shyam Sharma said in a statement to news agency ANI that “a DDCA team is going to Max Hospital to monitor his health, if needed we will shift him to Delhi and there is a high possibility that we will Will airlift her to Delhi for plastic surgery.”

However, there is no clear information on where and why Rishabh Pant will need plastic surgery? According to the information, Rishabh has got 2 cuts on his forehead, the ligament in his right knee has been torn and his right wrist, ankle, toe are also injured and his back is also injured.

In another update, actors Anil Kapoor and Anupam Kher reached Max Hospital in Dehradun on Saturday, where they met Rishabh Pant. He told that he met Pant and his mother. His condition is stable. He appealed to the people to wish him a speedy recovery.

Let us tell you that India’s star cricketer Rishabh Pant had a narrow escape when his luxury car caught fire after hitting the road divider on the Delhi-Dehradun highway in the early hours of Friday. In this accident, Pant somehow saved his life by breaking the glass of the car. He was recognized by some people on the roadside and he was given medical assistance.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who himself performed the last rites of his mother yesterday, inquired about Rishabh Pant’s health and prayed for his speedy recovery.

Anil Kapoor, Anupam Kher meet Rishabh Pant in Dehradun hospital

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40 thousand people posted on #CastistBCCI
As soon as the news of Surya and Samson being dropped from Team India for the Bangladesh tour broke, fans on Twitter started targeting the BCCI. In no time #CastistBCCI became the trending hashtag and till the time of writing the news, about 40 thousand people had written posts on this hashtag.

Why is Pant getting a chance after continuous flops?
Despite Rishabh Pant’s continuous failure in most posts, there is opposition to giving him a chance in Team India. Pant has not been able to perform as expected in white ball cricket so far. He has so far scored 840 runs in 27 ODIs at an average of 36.52. His performance in T20 International is even weaker. In this format, he has scored 987 runs in 66 matches at an average of 22.

Opponents believe that Kerala wicket-keeper batsman Sanju Samson has a stronger claim than Pant. Samson has so far scored 294 runs in 10 ODIs at an average of 73.50. Samson’s record in T20 International has also been as weak as Pant’s. He has scored 296 runs in 16 T20s at an average of 21. However, Samson never got a chance to play for India on a consistent basis.

Resentment even after giving rest to in-form Surya
BCCI says Suryakumar Yadav has been rested from Bangladesh tour. Surya has been playing cricket continuously since July and after the World Cup he also played against New Zealand. When Bhaskar spoke to some BCCI officials about this, they said that Surya has been rested under workload management. However, this decision is not going down well with Surya’s fans. He says that Surya got a chance to play for India too late. In such a situation, when he is batting well, he should be given maximum number of matches.

Accused of supporting a caste
Many of the posts written with the casteist BCCI hashtag have also accused the board of giving more preference to one caste (Brahmin). Senior journalist Dilip Mandal wrote in his post that out of 11 players of India, 7 are Brahmins. At present, the team captain Rohit Sharma and coach Rahul Dravid are also Brahmins.

Mandal has also alleged discrimination against backward castes and minorities in Indian cricket. In support of this, he has also shared a post, according to which only 5% of the 302 cricketers who have played Tests for India have been Muslims. At the same time, the scheduled castes have got only 8% representation. The share of Muslims in the total population of India is about 15% and the share of scheduled caste castes is 25%.

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