Rishabh Pant will have an MRI on his ankle and knee on Saturday as there was pain and swelling on Friday , also undergone plastic surgery.
Rishabh Pant : Plastic surgery | Condition now
The wicketkeeper-batter had a miraculous escape when his luxury car crashed into a road divider and caught fire after he dozed off at the wheel on the Delhi-Dehradun highway in the early hours of Friday.
The 25-year-old, who was on his way to his hometown Roorkee to surprise his mother, suffered injuries on his head, back and feet but is in a stable condition following the accident in Manglaur in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar district around 5.30 am, police said.
Pant is currently admitted in a hospital in Dehradun.
According to an ESPNCricinfo report, the results of Rishabh Pant’s MRI of the brain and spinal cord has returned as ‘normal.’
Rishabh Pant plastic surgery
Rishabh Pant has undergone plastic surgery after he was left with facial injuries following a car accident in northern India.
The wicketkeeper-batsman has also undergone MRI scans on his brain and spine, which have come back as normal, according to ESPNcricinfo.
Pant, 25, was alone in a Mercedes when he “dozed off” at the wheel and lost control of the vehicle in Uttarakhand in the early hours of Friday.
Police said the car flipped twice, and pictures showed extensive impact and fire damage.
Pant was reportedly in a stable condition earlier and doctors at Max Hospital in Dehradun said he also had “above knee splintage…for suspected right knee ligament injury and suspected right ankle ligament injury”.
A medical bulletin released by the hospital on Friday and seen by ESPNcricinfo added that Pant is “stable, conscious and oriented”.
The bulletin also noted that Pant “had sustained multiple abrasions on right-hand forearm and leg, and lacerated wounds over forehead and near eyebrow, and multiple graze abrasions on the back”.
Rishabh Pant Condition now
The results of India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant’s MRI of the brain and spine are normal, said a medical bulletin, after the cricketer suffered in a serious car accident near Roorkee, Uttarakhand on Friday morning.
The 25-year old has also undergone plastic surgery to manage his facial injuries, lacerated wounds and abrasions while the MRI scans of his ankle and knee have been postponed till Saturday because of pain and swelling.
According to an ESPNcricinfo report, the doctors at Max Hospital in Dehradun have also given him “above knee splintage … for suspected right knee ligament injury, and suspected right ankle ligament injury”.
The medical bulletin released by the hospital on Friday evening also said Pant is “stable, conscious and oriented”, the report further said.
Earlier in the day, BCCI had also released a statement, saying that Rishabh has two cuts on his forehead, a ligament tear in his right knee and has also hurt his right wrist, ankle, toe and has suffered abrasion injuries on his back.