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India have announced their squad for the two-Test series against South Africa starting November 14.<\/p>\n
Rishabh Pant returns, so does Akash Deep <\/p>\n
India have made two changes to the group that faced West Indies last month, with wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant<\/a> returning after recovering from a foot injury and fast bowler Akash Deep making a comeback as well. Pant has also been named as the vice-captain, continuing in the role he was assigned during the England tour. <\/p>\n The left-hander recently returned to action in the unofficial Test against South Africa A, leading the India A side to a tense victory courtesy a fourth-innings 90 in a chase of 275.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Narayan Jagadeesan, who was called up as a replacement for Pant in England and was part of the squad for the West Indies series as well, has made way, while Prasidh Krishna has been replaced by Akash Deep.<\/p>\n Pant’s inclusion will give the Indian side a pleasant headache as far as slotting him back in the XI is concerned. Dhruv Jurel<\/a>, who replaced Pant since his injury, has been in fine form, having scored his maiden Test hundred during the West Indies series. <\/p>\n The rest of the squad bears a settled look, with KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal as the designated openers, and Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj the frontline seamers alongside Akash.<\/p>\n The two Tests will be played in Kolkata (November 14-18) and Guwahati (November 22-26), the latter hosting its first Test match.<\/p>\n India squad for South Africa Tests Batters <\/p>\n Shubman Gill (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Devdutt Padikkal<\/p>\n Wicketkeepers <\/p>\n Rishabh Pant (WK) (VC), Dhruv Jurel<\/p>\n All-rounders <\/p>\n Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Nitish Kumar Reddy<\/p>\n Bowlers <\/p>\n Jasprit Bumrah,, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep<\/p>\n Follow Wisden for all cricket updates, including live scores<\/a>, match stats, quizzes<\/a> and more. Stay up to date with the latest cricket news<\/a>, player updates, team standings,<\/a> match highlights, video analysis<\/a> and live match odds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Cover StoriesTrending StoriesCover Stories AsiaCover Stories UKCover Stories IndiaSeries Cover Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India have announced their squad for the two-Test series against South Africa starting November 14. Rishabh Pant returns,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-246834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}