File photograph of Mayank Agarwal.
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Test cricketer and Karnataka captain Mayank Agarwal survived a serious health scare on January 30, simply as he and his teammates had been about to fly out of Agartala for Delhi en route Surat for his or her subsequent Ranji Trophy match in opposition to Railways beginning this Friday.
According to group sources, Mayank allegedly consumed spirit (disinfectant and cleansing agent) within the Indigo flight after mistaking it for bottle of ingesting water.
He is alleged to have spat out most of it after experiencing a right away burning sensation, and was rapidly deplaned and rushed to a neighborhood hospital, the place he continues to be within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
There is, nonetheless, no menace to the 32-year-old’s life and he’s at present secure, The Hindu understands. Mayank will likely be assessed additional after which flown to Bengaluru for the subsequent stage of therapy.
Because of the incident, the Delhi-bound flight left Agartala solely at 4.20 p.m. and the Karnataka group missed its connecting airplane to Surat. The group will thus fly out of Delhi Wednesday morning.
