India’s captain Shubman Gill is out of the hospital in Kolkata after a neck injury sent him there on Saturday evening during the first Test against South Africa. The early news is good, Gill’s stable, up and walking, can move his neck, and the pain that worried the team doctors has let up a lot.

He’s back at the team hotel now, resting and under close watch. The BCCI medical team and the squad’s doctors are keeping tabs on him for the next few days. It’s still up in the air if he’ll travel with the squad for the second Test in Guwahati on November 22. That call depends on how he responds to rest and treatment.

The injury itself was a rough moment late on Day 2. Gill came out after the drinks break, blocked Simon Harmer’s first ball, and then slog-swept the next one for four. That shot di

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