Rishabh Pant hurt in Manchester Test match (photo-PTI)
Team India will have to win the Manchester Test in Harhal to equalize the five -Test series. After the defeat in Lord’s, Team India is backward in the series at this time and will have to win the fourth Test match to stay in the series, but on the very first day of the Manchester Test match, the Indian team suffered a big blow to wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant, who went out of the field due to injury. One of his mistakes is going to be very heavy on the team. He got hurt by playing the wrong shot, in such a situation, the question is arising whether Team India will now play with only 10 players?
How did Rishabh Pant get hurt?
In the Manchester Test match, Team India’s third wicket fell on a score of 140 as captain Shubman Gill in the first innings of the Indian team. After this, wicketkeeper batsmen Rishabh Pant and Sai Sudarshan slowly carry the team’s innings. Both these players shared a 72 -run partnership for the fourth wicket. Meanwhile, Rishabh Pant, who was playing 37 runs off 48 balls, was injured by playing a wrong shot.
He got this injury in the 68th over of the innings. On the fourth ball of this over of England fast bowler Chris Woakes, Pant tried to play the reverse sweep, but his shot was missed and the ball touched with the bat and got into his shoes. The ball was very fast, so he groaned with pain. Pant was treated on the ground, but could not stand properly, so he had to go out of the ground. This increased the concern of Team India.
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– Mufaddal Vohra (@Mufaddal_vohra) July 23, 2025
Will only 9 batsmen batting?
After the injury of Rishabh Pant, the biggest question is arising whether he will be able to bat in his place if he does not return to the field again. The answer is that a player can do fielding and wicketkeeping in their place, but cannot bat, because Pant has a leg injury.
According to the ICC’s Convention Substitute Rules, if a player has a head injury and he cannot continue the game further, then another player can be fielded instead, which plays his kind of role. In such a situation, that player can do both fielding and batting, but Pant has a leg injury, in such a situation, Dhruv Jurail will do wicketkeeping in his place, but cannot bat. In such a situation, only 9 batsmen of Team India can come to bat, which has increased the concern of Team India.
