IPL 2023: 5 Players Who Can Replace Rishabh Pant As Delhi Capitals' Captain For 2023 Season

IPL 2023: 5 Players Who Can Replace Rishabh Pant As Delhi Capitals’ Captain For 2023 Season. Indian cricket team’s wicketkeeper and batsman Rishabh Pant met with an accident after his car hit the divider near Mangalore police station in Roorkee on Friday morning.

Rishabh Pant suffered injuries in his leg and head and is being moved to a private hospital in Dehradun for treatment. Rishabh Pant’s Mercedes Benz car hit the divider and caught fire. The accident took place around 5:30 am.

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Star Indian cricketer wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant met with a serious road accident on Friday morning (December 30) when he was returning to Delhi from Uttarakhand. According to the latest update, his car met with an accident on the Narsan border of Roorkee near Hammadpur Jhal on Friday morning.

His car hit a divider, and it caught fire after the collision. As per reports and several pictures that have surfaced online, he has suffered multiple burn injuries, but his condition is stable, and the 25-year-old cricketer is out of danger.

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Rishabh Pant was severely injured during the accident, sustaining a couple of lacerations on his forehead, suffering a ligament tear near the knee and from abrasions on his back but thankfully, he is out of danger and continues to be examined carefully by the doctors. Rishabh Pant, alone in his car, was driving to Uttarakhand to pay his family a surprise visit. He was on the Delhi-Dehradun highway when he allegedly dozed off.

it is believed that the 25-year-old will require plastic surgery and skin grafting due to the damage caused to his back. There are no fractures or any serious injuries which ruled him out of danger but at the same time, it is likely that he will miss at least a year’s worth of cricket.

This means that Rishabh Pant is ruled out of IPL 2023 besides the 4-match Test series against Australia and could almost miss the 2023 World Cup in India next year. Even though the IPL 2023 competition is still three months away, the likes of David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Mitchell Marsh, Yash Dhull, and Manish Pandey will probably captain Delhi Capitals if Rishabh Pant doesn’t get fit by March 20, 2023.

IPL 2023: 5 Players Who Can Replace Rishabh Pant As Delhi Capitals’ Captain For the 2023 Season

David Warner

David Warner will be the leading contender to captain Delhi Capitals in IPL if Rishabh Pant fails to get fit on time. The Australian has captained Sunrisers Hyderabad previously in IPL and won the 2016 title with them. In the IPL 2022, he finished as the leading run-getter for the national capital-based side Delhi Capitals, and in IPL 2023 will again bat at the top.

Prithvi Shaw

Former India U-19 captain Prithvi Shaw will be another candidate who can be given the opportunity to lead the Delhi Capitals in IPL 2023. He has captained the Mumbai team in domestic cricket and has helped them win Vijay Hazare Trophy along with taking them to the final of the Ranji Trophy 2021-22 season. As a U-19 skipper, he won the 2018 edition of the World Cup.

Mitchell Marsh

Like Prithvi Shaw, Mitchell Marsh has also won the U-19 World Cup as a skipper but has never captained any IPL side before. But on the back of his experience of playing at the highest level for so many years, he can be in the line to become Delhi Capitals skipper.

Mitchell Marsh made his international debut at the early age of 17. In 2010, he was appointed as the leader of the U-19 Australia side. The Aussie all-rounder had successfully led his side to the World Cup triumph in 2010. Mitchell Marsh’s terrific leadership skills will certainly help the Delhi-based franchise in winning its maiden IPL title this time.

Manish Pandey

Manish Pandey will play for Delhi in IPL 2023. He joined them for INR 2.4 crore in the recently concluded IPL 2023 mini-auction. Manish Pandey has played a total of 160 matches in IPL and has scored 3648 runs.

He is the most experienced player in the Delhi squad and has played in all 15 seasons to date since IPL’s inception in 2008. Though he has never led any IPL team but has huge experience leading Karnataka in domestic cricket for years.

Yash Dhull

Yash Dhull captained the India U-19 team to a World Cup win earlier this year, Since Rishabh Pant will miss IPL 2023 – one season only, Yash Dhull may be assigned to lead the franchise Delhi Capitals although it’s not a very viable option since he stayed on the bench in IPL 2022.

India’s U-19 World Cup-winning captain Yash Dhull bagged his first IPL contract with the Delhi Capitals who bought him for INR 50 lakh in the IPL 2022 mega auction. Yash Dhull made a mark in the 2022 U-19 World Cup, showing his tremendous potential with the bat. He scored a match-winning hundred in the semifinal of the tournament and also led the way from the front.

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