Nicholas Pooran Cricket Career Nearly Ended at 19 After Terrifying Car Crash

Nicholas Pooran Cricket Career Nearly Ended at 19 After Terrifying Car Crash: After a car crash in 2015, Nicholas Pooran, who was named the LSG captain, had to undergo two surgeries and months of rehabilitation before he was able to stand on his own again.

In place of KL Rahul, who was named in the XI, Pooran walked out for the toss on Saturday.

Pooran informed me during the toss that KL Rahul would be an impact player. Rahul is returning from a quadriceps injury. Rahul is being eased into his return after being out for two months. A 44-ball 58 was scored by Rahul last Sunday against the Rajasthan Royals as a member of the LSG team.

While Pooran has had a remarkable cricketing career so far, he almost lost it when he was just 19 years old, when he was involved in a serious car crash.

“I was coming back home from training, driving. I was close to home and a car was overtaking another car, so I pulled away. I hit a sand heap and then I came back onto the road and another vehicle hit me,” Pooran recalled to ESPNCricinfo.

“I was knocked out and then I couldn’t remember what happened. I just woke up at the accident and I was like, ‘How did this happen?’ I was shocked. I couldn’t believe that this happened. I was taken in an ambulance, couldn’t move my legs. My left patellar tendon had ruptured and I had a fractured right ankle. I couldn’t straighten my leg. At first, I didn’t really know what happened. I wasn’t too sure. People kept telling me, ‘Move your toes, move your toes!’ I knew I couldn’t move my knee, so I knew something’s definitely wrong.”

It took Pooran many months of rehab to get back on his feet after two surgeries.

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