Wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant is set to return to cricket after a long break since the horrific car accident. He will be playing for the Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League 2024 season. Thulasi Yuvraj, physio at the National Cricket Academy shared about Rishabh Pant’s recovery journey.
Rishabh Pant was involved in a car accident in December 2022. He suffered multiple injuries and had to go through surgery as well. The left-handed batter went to the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru for his recovery phase. NCA physio Thulasi Yuvraj who worked with Pant, revealed how the batter struggled during the initial phases. He said in a video shared by the BCCI,
“When we came to know he had an accident, our head of sports science, Nitin bhai, basically told us just to go and take care of the initial stage of rehab. The first thing I could notice, he is having severe pain was when the ward boy was trying to push the stretcher towards the room and it slightly hit the pathway.”
“He started screaming with so much pain. It was a simple jerk but it felt so painful, he cried immediately. Then I realised, oh something big has happened,” he added.
“The mental strength and confidence inside him made us give our 100 percent in doing the rehab part for him. The doctors thought that he may take up to two years. Once he came to NCA, it was like a progressive phase for him,” the physio further said.
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Rishabh Pant has done a lot of hard work: NCA Physio
Dhananjay Kaushik, another physio at the NCA credited Rishabh Pant for looking after his own nutrition during the rehab process. He expressed that the wicket-keeper batter has ticked all the boxes of recovery in a fine manner. He said,
“If someone needs to be commented on his nutrition, it is Rishabh himself. If you look at overall things, when we started the rehab and where he is right now, this guy has done a lot of hard work, when it comes to ticking all the boxes.”
“Whether it’s nutrition, his own recovery, his sleeping pattern, he checked all the boxes of recovery in a very fine manner,” he added.
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