Star wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant is fit to play in the Indian Premier League starting this month after being seriously hurt in a car crash in 2022, the cricket board said Tuesday.

After an extensive 14-month rehab and recovery process, Pant "has now been declared fit as a wicket-keeper batter" for the Twenty20 tournament, the Board of Control for Cricket in India posted on X, formerly Twitter.