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‘He was in a lot of pain’: Pant’s foot injury leaves India sweating on scan results

India's Rishabh Pant is helped off the field after sustaining a very painful looking foot injury.
India’s Rishabh Pant is helped off the field after sustaining a painful-looking foot injury. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA

India are sweating over the fitness of Rishabh Pant after the wicketkeeper retired hurt with a painful foot injury on the opening day of the fourth Test against England.

Pant was on 37 when he attempted an audacious – even by his lofty standards – reverse-sweep to a full Chris Woakes delivery, the ball slamming his right boot via an inside edge. While England unsuccessfully reviewed in the hope of an lbw, Pant was still forced to leave the field on the back of a golf cart.

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