India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant marked his return to competitive cricket as captain of the India A side in the first four-day match against South Africa A, which began on Thursday at the BCCI Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru. Pant, who had been sidelined with a foot fracture sustained during the England Test in June, described the recovery process as one of the most demanding phases of his career. “I feel it was really challenging for me from the start because you know, I had that fracture in England and had to go through that whole process,” Pant said, speaking about his rehabilitation. He explained that the recovery was divided into stages, beginning with healing before moving to rehabilitation work at the CoE. “The first part of the process was healing. For the

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