Rishabh Pant harm: Former England captain bats for substitute – ‘It’s 10 vs 11 now’ | Cricket News – Times of India

India’s Rishabh Pant performs a shot throughout the fourth cricket check match between England and India at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester, England, Wednesday, July 23, 2025.(AP Photo/Jon Super)

Former England captain Michael Vaughan on Wednesday known as for a tweak within the guidelines following Rishabh Pant’s foot harm, whereas one other ex-England skipper, Alastair Cook, disagreed.Rishabh Pant was retired damage and went for scans after copping a blow on his proper foot whereas making an attempt a reverse sweep off England pacer Chris Woakes on the opening day of the fourth Test at Old Trafford.Vaughan mentioned the unlucky harm had made the steadiness of the Test uneven.“I don’t like the fact that we’ve got four days left in the game — four days of action in what has been an incredible series — where we are going to have ten versus eleven,” Vaughan mentioned on Test Match Special.“I prefer that you’d have a sub. You know, once they brought in concussion subs, I was crying out, saying, ‘Well, just have substitutions then in the first innings of a game.’ That would be my stepping point. If it happens in the second innings, I feel that team might kind of break the rules or indulge in a bit of skullduggery.“But if it is clear and apparent — when somebody breaks a hand or a foot or ruptures a calf — it is so evident that somebody is in actual ache and might’t stick with it. I believe it’s extremely clear to me: you have to be allowed a sub.”Meanwhile, Alastair Cook disagreed and raised a hypothetical scenario: what if it’s just a bruise?

“I’m unsure I agree,” mentioned Cook.“I’m not even positive what I believe in the intervening time. But say we have simply seen Pant stroll off — he seems in every kind of ache. And then it seems it’s not damaged.(*10*)id-r-part br” data-pos=”33″/>

“But there will likely be instances the place somebody will get hit on the arm. ‘I can’t transfer my hand, I’m bruised.’ But it is solely a bruise. So do you get changed as a result of of discomfort and the truth that you’ll be able to’t maintain the bat in addition to you’d like — though it’s only a bruise?”Pant was batting on 37 off 48 balls at the time. The wicketkeeper-batter first received on-field medical attention but had to be moved off the field in a golf cart labelled as an ambulance.Woakes’ full-length delivery crashed into Pant’s toe, and the England players went up in appeal for leg-before. But a tiny inside edge on review saved the day for Pant.This was Pant’s second injury in the series — he had bruised his finger while keeping during the third Test at Lord’s, which prevented him from guarding the stumps in England’s second innings.