Injured Pant Available To Bat, But Will Not Keep Wicket

India opportunity Rishabh Pant is disposable to bat if required later successful nan 4th Test contempt nan wounded to his correct foot, but he will not beryllium capable to support wicket.

Pant, 27, was struck while batting connected time 1 astatine Old Trafford and had to discontinue wounded connected 37.

Substitute fielder Dhruv Jurel will return nan gloves for nan remainder of nan Test, arsenic he did successful nan 3rd Test erstwhile Pant injured a finger, but Pant arrived astatine nan crushed for time 2 and is "available to bat arsenic per squad requirements".

He was seen successful his whites successful nan dressing room aft play resumed connected Thursday morning.

Pant was incapable to locomotion aft nan rustle nan erstwhile evening, which came erstwhile he attempted to reverse expanse Chris Woakes, and near nan section connected a buggy.

The flamboyant left-hander, who returned to Test cricket past September almost 2 years aft a car clang successful which he astir mislaid his life, has been 1 of nan players of nan bid anterior to his injury.

He scored hundreds successful some innings of nan first Test and fifties successful each of nan 2nd and 3rd Tests.