Rishabh Pant has "no injury concerns" and is set to keep wickets for India while the team will decide on Jasprit Bumrah's workload after the second Test against New Zealand starting here on Thursday, said head coach Gautam Gambhir.
Pant copped a blow on the second day of the opening Test in Bengaluru and was replaced by Dhruv Jurel behind the wickets. Pant returned to score a fine century but did not keep wickets.
Pant had a hit at the nets and also had a wicket-keeping drill with Gambhir on Tuesday. "Absolutely," Gambhir said on Wednesday when asked if everything was fine with the wicketkeeper-batter. "I think he's going to keep wickets tomorrow. (There are) no other fitness concerns," he added.
Bumrah has played each of the three Tests at home this season and with the Australia tour less than a month away, India will decide on resting the ace fast bowler after the second Test. "Once the series is over, we still have around 10 or 12 days before the (first) Test starts in Australia.