Team India’s former captain Kapil Dev has spoken of slapping the team’s wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant. Rishabh Pant is currently hospitalized due to a car accident and his recovery is underway. He was seriously injured in an accident in Roorkee on the morning of 30 December, for which he was first treated in Dehradun and then admitted to Mumbai. Team India is missing him, for which Kapil Dev has said that if he has made a mistake, he should be slapped.

Kapil Dev spoke on ABP Uncut about the Test series between India and Australia starting on February 9 and said about Pant, “I love him very much. I want him to get well and when he gets well If you go, I will go and slap you hard, because take care of yourself. Look, your injury has spoiled the combination of the whole team. So, there is love and affection that you get well soon. Then there is also anger that such mistakes today’s youth Why do boys do it? There should be a slap for that too.”

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Kapil Dev, the captain of the 1983 World Cup winning team and one of the greatest all-rounders in the world, further said, “First of all blessings and love to him. May God give him good health. First it is necessary for him to recover and then it is the same for the parents.” It is your duty that if you have made a mistake, you should be slapped.” India will miss Pant in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as he was a different kind of Pant in Test cricket. Then whether it is about wicketkeeping or scoring fast runs.