India, Nov. 21 -- Rishabh Pant will become India's 38th Test captain on Saturday after Shubman Gill was ruled out of the second Test here due to the neck injury he had suffered during the Kolkata Test. It's a one-off responsibility, that too when India are trying to level the two-match series here. That makes this hardly an opportunity, given Pant is already enduring a season where his career is still on the mend after the road accident that kept him out of cricket for nearly two years, not to mention the right foot fracture that prevented him from playing the fifth Test in England.

"Definitely, a one-off match is not the best scenario as a captain," said Pant at the press conference on Friday. "But at the same time, I'm really proud tha...