Five Players, Warm the bench, Test Series, New Zealand, Ravichandran Ashwin, Prithvi Shaw
Ravichandran Ashwin (Credits - AFP)
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2) Rishabh Pant

Indian players, team India, Warm the bench, New Zealand, India tour of New Zealand 2020
Rishabh Pant (Credits: Twitter)

How quickly things change in cricket, after the World Cup, Pant was promoted to India’s first choice-wicketkeeper, while in the current scheme of things, he just can’t get himself any game time at all.

The 22-year-old has had a tour to forget so far, and in the upcoming Test series, the presence of Wriddhiman Saha behind the stumps means that Pant will have to warm the bench yet again.

However, he did try to give Virat Kohli a late selection headache with his cameo of 70 runs in the warm-up match versus New Zealand XI.

All things considered, Kohli will opt for the experience of Saha, while Pant will have to do more to turn his fortunes around. He will be one of those Indian players, who will come in only if someone from the playing XI gets injured.

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