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Team India, who won a thrilling manner on the last day in Lord’s 4 years ago, got a heart -breaking defeat this time. Team India suffered a close defeat against England by 22 runs and with this she lagged behind in the 5 match series. There were many reasons for this defeat of Team India and the injury of star wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant was also a reason, due to which he could not bat openly in the second innings. In such a situation, the question has arisen whether he will be fit for the next Test match in Manchester? Captain Shubman Gill has responded to this.
What did Gill say on Pant’s injury?
From July 10, the third Test match started between India and England at Lord’s and Pant was hurt on the very first day of the match. During England’s batting, Pant’s left hand finger was injured in an attempt to stop a ball from Jasprit Bumrah in the second session. Due to this, he had to go out of the field and then he could not do wicketkeeping even once in this match. In his place Dhruv Juril took over the responsibility of keeping.
Although Pant batted in both innings, he was constantly seen in pain. In such a situation, after the team’s defeat on the last day of the match at Lord’s, there was a question about Pant’s fitness from Shubman Gill in the press conference and the Indian captain replied, he will make the Indian fans happy. Gill said, “Rishabh went for a scan. His injury is not very serious, so he will be fit for the fourth Test match in Manchester from July 23.”
Pant’s injury to Team India affected Team India
Pant, the vice-captain of Team India, batted well in this series. He also continued this trend in Lord’s. Despite the injury, Pant scored a score of 74 runs in the first innings and during this time he had a significant partnership of 141 runs with KL Rahul. But just before the third day lunch, he was run out, which took away the opportunity to take the lead from Team India. Then on the last day of the match, when Pant landed for batting in the second innings, Team India needed 135 runs. Pant was the biggest hope of Team India, but after hitting 2 fours, he looked troubled by pain and finally became bold on Jofra Archer’s best ball.
