India, Oct. 21 -- Rishabh Pant, rejoice! Your favourite is coming back to the cricket field sooner than expected. India's preferred wicketkeeper batter across formats, who sustained a broken foot during the 4th Test against England in Manchester back in July, has recovered from his injury and will captain the India A team for their two 4-day games against South Africa A beginning October 30, just over a week from today. The warm-up games will be a precursor to the Test series between India and the reigning world champions, South Africa, starting November 14.

Pant will lead two slightly different squads. For the first game at the BCCI's Centre of Excellence, the likes of Sai Sudharsan, N Jagdeesan, Devdutt Padikkal and Rajat Patidar will ...