In Pics: These Cricketers were involved in serious car accidents before Rishabh Pant's Mercedes crash

By: Rohan Sen | December 31, 2022

Pant was travelling in a Mercedes SUV and reportedly dozed off at a high speed causing the accident

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Pant's accident has brought back memories of some cricketers and their car crashes, the most recent being that of Andrew Symonds who died this year in a crash

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Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff was hospitalised this month after crashing his car while filming for British auto show 'Top Gear'

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A bus carrying the Baroda women's squad was involved in an accident on the route to Visakhapatnam Airport on December 21. Four female cricketers were critically injured in the accident

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Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar also had a close shave like Pant in 2014 when he survived a car accident while travelling from Manchester to London on August 10, 2014

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Former India captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi lost vision in his right eye after a car accident on July 1, 1961 in England

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England international cricketer Ben Hollioake was killed in a car accident in Perth in March 2002

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Manjural Islam, who played 6 Tests and 25 ODIs for Bangladesh, became the youngest Test player to die. He was 22 when he was killed in a road accident in March, 2007

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33-year-old West Indies batter Runako Morton died in a road accident after his car crashed into a utility pole on a highway in Trinidad in March, 2012

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