Rishabh Pant Will Not Keep Wickets in 2nd Test Against New Zealand

Rishabh Pant didn’t come out to field for India in the second innings of the first Test against New Zealand, which raised doubts over his fitness.
Captain Rohit Sharma gave a clear hint during the post-match press conference after India lost the Test series opener by eight wickets.

“It’s just to be a little careful about where he is at and what he is to us. Even when he was batting, he was not comfortably running. He was trying to only put the ball in the stands. But, again, with someone like him, we just need to be extra careful because he has had a lot of minor surgeries, one big surgery on his knee. And he went through a lot of trauma, to be honest, in the last one and a half years. So, it’s just about being extra careful, not careful with him. So, when you are keeping, you have to bend every ball with your knee going down. And the wicket being what it was, we thought it was the right thing to do for him to stay inside and then get 100% ready for the next one,” Rohit told reporters.