‘Front half of the car was under a truck’: Clarke reveals terrifying crash after IPL final

NEW DELHI: Former Australia skipper Michael Clarke, who was portion of the commentary team, has revealed helium was progressive successful a superior roadworthy mishap soon aft the IPL 2026 last portion heading to the airport, describing the incidental arsenic a frightening acquisition that near him grateful to person escaped with lone bruises.Clarke, who was travelling arsenic a passenger, said the conveyance helium was successful crashed into a semi-trailer and ended up partially wedged underneath the truck."Interesting travel home, to accidental the least," Clarke said connected the Beyond23 Cricket Podcast. "Let maine commencement by saying convey God for bully radical successful India. That's wherefore I made it location safely."

Woke up to find car underneath truckThe 45-year-old said helium had fallen dormant aft the last and was jolted awake by the impact."I was asleep. I fell dormant aft the game, travelling. Obviously, I wasn't driving. Then I woke up to virtually the beforehand fractional of the car being nether a truck," Clarke revealed.According to Clarke, the operator aboriginal told him that the truck's brake lights were not functioning."The operator explained to maine that the brake lights connected the motortruck weren't working. So my operator had deed the motortruck up the backside. Again, it was a large semi-trailer and our car had gone underneath," helium said.

"The car's surely written off," helium added.Concern for injured driverWhile Clarke escaped with bruises, helium feared that the operator had suffered a breached limb aft the interaction pushed against some their legs."I got distant with immoderate bruises, but I decidedly deliberation helium had a small interruption successful his leg," Clarke said.He added that the operator was severely shaken and disquieted due to the fact that the conveyance belonged to the institution helium worked for."I was truly acrophobic due to the fact that helium was truthful scared. It wasn't his car, helium works for the company," helium said.Clarke said helium urged the operator to question aesculapian attraction and hoped helium yet went to hospital.Grateful for enactment from locals and BCCIThe erstwhile Australian skipper reserved peculiar praise for the section radical who rushed to assistance and the BCCI officials who checked connected some him and the injured driver."Everyone astatine the BCCI, everybody there, they've been checking successful connected him and they've been checking successful connected me. They've been unreal. So I'm precise grateful for that," helium said.

"It was a implicit accident. These things hap each the time, but for maine it was much the daze due to the fact that I was accelerated dormant and past woke up to spot myself truthful adjacent to being underneath a truck."Despite the scare, Clarke managed to drawback his formation location and reflected fondly connected different stint astir the IPL."Not the perfect mode to get home, but I made my flight. I'm backmost present and I'm precise fortunate to person been portion of different awesome IPL campaign. I emotion it," helium added.