- Wednesday, April 23, 2025
The 36-year-old said a massive truck hit his car from behind and they were saved since it was a big vehicle.
By: Shubham Ghosh
IN a reminder of the near-fatal car crash involving India cricketer Rishabh Pant last December, former India pace bowler Praveen Kumar and his son had a close shave when their vehicle rammed into a truck in Meerut in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday (4) night.
The 36-year-old former cricketer, who was a member of India’s world cup-winning squad of 2011 and has taken more than 100 wickets in six Tests, 68 one-day internationals and 10 T20s for India between 2007 and 2012, told the PTI that both he and his son were doing fine.
“It could have been a lot worse. By the grace of god we are okay and I am talking to you. I had gone to drop my nephew but a massive truck hit my car from behind around 9:30pm. Thank God it was a big car, else there could have been injuries,” Kumar, who lives in Meerut with his family, told the news outlet.
The vehicle was badly damaged in the impact.
Pant had a miraculous escape last December when he dozed off at the wheel of his luxury car on the Delhi-Dehradun highway and it crashed into a road divider and caught fire. The 25-year-old wicket-keeper-batter was seriously injured and is still rehabilitating. He has missed quite a few fixtures since the accident and is unlikely to feature in the cricket world cup at home later this year.
(With PTI inputs)
