• He has two ligament tears in his knee.
• He is being flown via helicopter to Mumbai for treatment.
• The BCCI will pay for the air ambulance trip.

Rishabh Pant is having one of two ligament tears in his knee treated immediately, so he is being flown from Dehradun to Mumbai via helicopter.

“Rishabh will have surgery and other procedures to fix the ligament tears he has, and the BCCI Medical Team will continue to check on him as he recovers and gets better,” the BCCI said in a statement. “The Board will do everything it can to help and speed up Rishabh’s recovery, and it will give him all the help he needs during this time.”

In Mumbai, Dr. Dinshaw Pardiwala will take care of Pant. He has worked with Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja, and Olympic athletes in the past. Pardiwala is the head of the Centre for Sports Medicine and the director of the Arthroscopy and Shoulder Service at Kokilaben Hospital in Andheri, a western suburb of the city.

The BCCI is glad that Pant was treated right away by two hospitals in Uttarakhand, but they would rather have their own medical team take care of his injuries. Pant’s health insurance will pay for his care, but the board will pay for the cost of the air ambulance.

Pant hasn’t had MRI scans of his leg injuries yet, but after two or three meetings between doctors from the BCCI and the Max hospital in Dehradun, it was decided that one of the tears needs to be fixed right away.

Pant was driving to Roorkee, Uttarakhand, to see his mother when his car hit a road divider at 5:30 a.m. on December 30. Even though his car was on fire, he miraculously got out without injuries that could have killed him.

Pant got emergency care right away at Saksham Hospital in Roorkee. He was then taken to Max Hospital in Dehradun, where he had plastic surgery to fix his cuts, scrapes, and facial injuries. The MRI scans of his brain and spine that night showed nothing wrong, but scans of his knee and foot had to be put off because they hurt and were swollen.

It is too soon to say when Pant will be able to do sports again and then play top-level cricket. He has not yet started to walk.

The four Tests against Australia at home in February and March, a possible World Test Championship final in England in June, and the ODI World Cup in India in October and November are India’s three biggest events in 2023.

Pant isn’t likely to play in the Test series against Australia, but it’s not impossible. The other big event is the IPL, which happens in April and May and is captained by Pant.

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