Australia v India Test cricket series 2024-25: Surgeon tells how Rishabh Pant cheated death and was then put back together [Video]

“I need to get out, I need to get out.” Rishabh Pant cried out from under his overturned car on the highway near the northern Indian city of Dehradun on December 30, 2022.

Conscious after a high-speed crash and trapped in the passenger cabin, he could feel and see his knee bent at a sickening 90-degree angle.

But Rishabh could also smell the unmistakable whiff of petrol from the smoking hulk of the vehicle. As so many Bollywood films had shown him, a car in this position had every chance of blowing up.

As he later related to doctor Dinshaw Pardiwala, the expert surgeon who would repair his shattered knee, Rishabh called over a couple of bystanders and pleaded for them …