It isn’t just Rishabh Pant. Cricketers around the globe have been involved in serious car crashes over decades. Here’s a list of some well-known cricketers who were involved in car crashes...
GARRY SOBERS: Sept 1959: Garfield Sobers, who had smashed a record 365 not out in a Test innings against Pakistan a year ago, was in the driver’s seat when the car collided with a 10-ton cattle wagon in Stoke, England. Sobers escaped with minor injuries but fellow travellers, Test cricketers Tom Dewdney and Collie Smith, fared worse. Smith, whose spine was fractured, died a few days later. He was 26. The hugely talented all-rounder from Jamaica was a close friend of Sobers. Tony Cozier wrote in an article many years later that shaken by the injury, Sobers took to heavy drinking before he steeled himself up to forge a glittering career.
