Young Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant has been added to India A squad for the upcoming unofficial four-day Test matches in England.

After completion of the ongoing tri-series between India A, Windies A and England Lions in England, Karun Nair leading India A will play two-match unofficial four-day Test series against Windies A at Beckenham (start July 4) and Taunton (start July 10) respectively and only unofficial four-day Test against England Lions at Worcester (start July 16).

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Pant is currently busy in England to play the tri-series between India A, Windies A and England Lions. India A has reached in the final of the series and they will meet against England Lions at the final on Monday (July 2) at Kennington Oval (London).

While India A has dominated in the tri-series as they finished on top of the points table with 6 points by winning three matches, Pant has made only one half-century as he scored 64 in their opening game against England Lions at Derby. In fact, it is his only 20+ innings in this series as he scored 18*, 7 and 5 in next three games.

Pant is one of growing youngsters in present Indian cricket. He has already made his international debut through T20I cricket. Making an international cricket debut against England in a T20I game at Bengaluru on February 1, 2017, Pant has already played four T20Is where he has scored 73 runs with the average of 24.33. His highest knock is 38 against West Indies at Kingston on July 9, 2017.

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Pant was in a brilliant batting form during the IPL 2018 where he won the emerging player award of the season. Playing for Delhi Daredevils, who finished at the bottom (eighth-placed) in the IPL 2018 points table, the wicketkeeper-batsman scored 684 runs with the average of 52.61 and strike-rate of an impressive 173.60.

The young player was too consistent with the bat as he scored one century and five half-centuries in this IPL season. His best knock in that tournament was 128* against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Delhi and that was also the highest individual knock in IPL 2018.

India A full-member squad for unofficial four-day Test matches in England: Karun Nair (Captain), R Samarth, Mayank Agarwal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Prithvi Shaw, Hanuma Vihari, Ankit Bawne, Vijay Shankar, KS Bharat (wicket-keeper), Jayant Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem, Ankit Rajpoot, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Rajneesh Gurbani, Rishabh Pant.