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India’s Rishabh Pant set to resume cricket career at IPL 2024

Rishabh Pant last played a competitive cricket match in December 2022, a few days before his accident [File: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP]

India’s wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant is fit to play in the Indian Premier League (IPL) starting this month after being seriously hurt in a car crash in 2022, the country’s cricket board has said.

After an extensive 14-month rehab and recovery process, Pant “has now been declared fit as a wicket-keeper batter” for the Twenty20 tournament, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said in a statement posted on X.

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