Overview

• India’s selectors named ODI and T20I squads for Australia without Pant, picking KL Rahul and Dhruv Jurel for ODIs and Jitesh Sharma and Sanju Samson for T20Is.
• Recent videos show Pant batting in the nets, indicating progress after weeks of rehabilitation at the BCCI Centre of Excellence.
• Reports cited by RevSportz’s Rohit Juglan suggest Pant could be fully fit in roughly two weeks, though final fitness certification is still required.
• Pant is targeting availability for the home Test series against South Africa, which begins on November 14.
• His strong form before the injury — 479 runs in the England Tests with two centuries and three fifties — underlines the selection stakes as some coverage notes criticism of Jurel’s ODI inclusion over Samson.