Rishabh Pant to make his Test debut in the third test?

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After two humiliating losses in first two test matches in England. Indian Cricket Team is expected to reshuffle a lot in the side for the upcoming test match in Trent Bridge on August 18. Thus, Dinesh Kartik who is out of form, is expected to be at rest and Rishabh Pant is most likely to play his first international test match.

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Dinesh Kartik who is playing as a replacement for India’s regular Test wicketkeeper Wrriudhiman Saha has failed miserably in last two test matches and is likely to miss the third one. His poor performance is not just with the bat but also with the gloves. He has scored just 21 runs in two Tests, including two ducks, on his Test comeback after eight years. But on the third day of the second Test, he was wincing in pain and was attended by the team physio Patrick Farhart. He has dropped some catches in the 2 matches he has played in England so far.

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When asked about the possibility of Pant, making his Test debut at Nottingham, India coach Ravi Shastri was non-committal, saying “about Rishabh, you will know 11 am the day after”.

Rishabh Pant was named as a standby wicketkeeper batsmen for this England tour. In his brief first-class career, Pant has an average of almost 55 and an incredible strike rate of 95 with a triple century to his name as well.

He has played in four T20Is for India and has impressed India A’s tour of England, where he scored at an average of 63, including three fifties in the two first-class matches.

He opened the batting for India in the Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh, smashed a record-breaking fifty against Nepal and followed it up with a century against Namibia to help India qualify for the semi-finals. Incidentally, his century came on the same day when he was bought by Delhi Daredevils for INR 1.9 crores from a base price of Rs 10 lakhs. A year after making his Ranji Trophy debut at the age of 18 in 2015, Pant broke records by scoring a triple-hundred against Maharashtra and a blistering 48-ball hundred against Jharkhand in the 2016-17 first-class season. In January 2017, he was rewarded with a call-up to India’s T20 squad for the three home matches against England.