India, Aug. 8 -- Rishabh Pant has made a direct and personal appeal to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, seeking help with the process of acquiring land in his home state. While currently on India's tour of Sri Lanka, Pant took to X in the early hours of Saturday to explain his long-running difficulty in finding a suitable property and expressed his desire to shift his base from Delhi to Uttarakhand.

The 28-year-old cricketer said he had been attempting to purchase land in the state for around three years but had been unable to find a suitable option or navigate the process. Describing the situation as a "nightmare", Pant asked the Chief Minister to intervene and help him understand how the acquisition could be completed. ...