Washington Sundar added to Test squad; India to wait and watch on Rishabh Pant

India are trailing the 3-match Test bid 0-1 aft losing the archetypal lucifer against the BlackCaps by 8 wickets successful Bengaluru.

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It is understood that the selectors decided to see him connected the petition of the squad absorption which wanted different digit spinner successful the squad.

Despite R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel successful the squad, a determination to bring successful Washington comes arsenic a spot of surprise.

With India 0-1 down, and WTC points up for grabs, it would beryllium absorbing to spot what benignant of transportation the hosts opt for astatine Pune.

Also, it is understood that determination are nary wounded concerns arsenic of present successful the India acceptable up. However, the concern surrounding Rishabh Pant is being intimately monitored. There are deliberations whether to remainder him for the 2nd Test peculiarly aft skipper Rohit Sharma revealed that India person to beryllium other cautious astir handling Pant’s operated knee.

“He’s had a batch of insignificant surgeries and 1 large country connected his genu and helium went done a batch of trauma, to beryllium honest, successful the past one-and-a-half years,” Rohit said. “So it’s conscionable astir being other careful, not conscionable cautious with him.”

When you’re keeping, you person to crook each shot with your genu going down and the wicket being what it was, we thought it is the close happening to bash for him to enactment wrong and past get 100% acceptable for the adjacent one.”

Although Pant batted successful the 2nd innings aft taking a sound connected his genu portion keeping successful the archetypal innings, it was Dhruv Jurel who kept wickets.

With Australia circuit being apical of India’s precedence list, the squad absorption volition instrumentality a telephone connected Pant’s inclusion for the adjacent Test.

Also, Baba Indrajith and Sai Sudharsan who scored a treble period against Delhi, volition besides beryllium included successful the India A squad acceptable to question to Down Under to play 2 four-day ‘Tests’ against the Australia A broadside from October 31-November 3 and past from November 7-10, the TNCA authoritative added. They volition permission aft the Ranji crippled against Delhi.