4 cricketers before Rishabh Pant who met similar horrific accidents in the past

Star Indian wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant recently met a horrific accident as his luxury car got smashed into a road divider near the Narsan Border on the Delhi-Dehradun Highway. He was immediately taken to the Roorkee-based Saksham Hospital for early medical treatment. Later on, the authorities transferred him to the Max Hospital of Dehradun before he was headed to the AIIMS, Rishikesh.

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Although it’s not the first time when a cricketer met such kind of fatal accident while driving. There have been a few instances previously to which cricketers fell prey before Rishabh Pant. With said that, here we’ll have a look at four cricketers who faced the same kind of terrorizing accident as the one Rishabh Pant fell prey to.

Karun Nair (2016)

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Probably a name that the Indian fans would never forget whenever the Test triple centurions would be discussed. The 31-year-old cricketer is only the second Indian to score a Triple Ton in the longest format of the game after the former blistering opener Virender Sehwag.

Apart from his action on the cricket field, Karun Nair also happened to end up in an unfortunate and life-threatening boat accident six years back in the year 2016. But luckily, the Karnataka batter escaped death and survived that accident.

Andrew Flintoff (2022)

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The former legendary Lancashire all-rounder had a celebrated and decorated career to his name while he played for the national team of England. The accident happened with Flintoff during his stint as a presenter for the BBC show Top Gear. This unforeseen incident happened with the 45-year-old earlier this month on the 13^th of December.

It all happened at Dunsfold Aerodrome’s test track in the English county of Surrey. Although, he successfully survived the accident as the injuries weren’t the ones that could produce a life threat to the former all-rounder of the three lions.

Andrew Hall, (1998 & 2002)

The former South Africa all-rounder Andrew Hall is most possibly the only cricketer in history who escaped from death not one but two times to narrate the entire horrific scenes he witnessed. The first incident with Hall happened 24 years back in the year 1998 when he received shot six bullets at an ATM machine.

Four years later in 2002, he fell prey to car-jacking and got pointed a gun to his head for a time span of five minutes. Having a big favor of fortune, he survived once again and escaped that terrorizing incident.

Ewen Chatfield

Former star Kiwi bowler would never want to remember that horrific day of the 22^nd of February 57 years back in the year 1975. New Zealand was struggling against England with a trail of 105 runs having middle-order batter Geoff Howarth and number-eleven batter Ewen Chatfield in the middle.

All of sudden, English pacer Peter Lever happened to deliver a nasty that Chatfield couldn’t get rid of. Eventually, it left everyone in shock as the Kiwi player was on the ground, thanks to the England physiotherapist Bernard Thomas’ presence of mind that he immediately rushed to the field to check with Chatfield as the latter swallowed his tongue. Eventually, efforts from Thomas had given a chance to Chatfield to see another morning of his life.