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Pant only managed a score of 17 in the first innings but then scored 90 off 113 balls in the second, which ultimately helped India A win the match by three wickets. (AP Photo)
Rishabh Pant is back from the injury he sustained in England in July this year and has been included in India’s squad for their upcoming two-match Test series against South Africa. The first Test will be played from November 14 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata while the second will be played in Guwahati from November 22. Pant has replaced N Jagadeesan in the squad that hosted the West Indies last month. The other change in the squad is Akash Deep replacing Prasidh Krishna.
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Pant returns as vice-captain of the team. His comeback to competitive cricket was as captain of India A in their first unnofficial Test against South Africa A, which was played from October 30 to November 2 at the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru. The 28-year-old kept wickets throughout the match, in which South Africa A batted 139.3 overs across two innings. He only managed a score of 17 in the first innings but then scored 90 off 113 balls in the second, which ultimately helped India A win the match by three wickets.
The selection committee has also picked India A’s squad for the three-match one-day series to be held in Rajkot against South Africa A.
India’s Test squad: Shubman Gill (C), Rishabh Pant (WK) (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Devdutt Padikkal, Dhruv Jurel, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah, Axar Patel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep
India A’s squad for one-day team: Tilak Varma (C), Ruturaj Gaikwad (VC), Abhishek Sharma, Riyan Parag, Ishan Kishan (WK), Ayush Badoni, Nishant Sindhu, Vipraj Nigam, Manav Suthar, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Prabhsimran Singh (WK)
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