Star cricketer Rishabh Pant was on Wednesday shifted out of a private hospital here for further treatment in Mumbai, sources said.

Rishabh Pant to undergo surgery for ligament tears after being shifted to Mumbai. He will be monitored by BCCI medical team, according to media reports.

Pant, 25, was under treatment at Max Hospital here since December 30 following a horrific car accident when he was driving down from Delhi to his hometown Rourkee but lost control on NH-58 highway and hit the divider.

A plastic surgery had been done here on his forehead for the cuts he suffered in the accident. There was pain in his right leg due to a ligament injury suffered in the accident, sources said.

Doctors were waiting for the pain in his leg to subside for conducting an MRI scan, they added.