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Xtra Time Web Desk: Team India wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha on Friday said Rishabh Pant should be the first choice keeper in England. Both Saha and Pant has been selected in the 20 member India test squad that will travel to England on June 2. Not very long ago the Bengal stumper was the automatic choice in the test squad. But Pant’s run of form since the Australia series makes him an automatic choice in the playing XI in the longer format as well.

“Rishabh Pant played the last few matches of the World Test Championship, he’s done well and he should be our first-choice keeper in England. I would just wait, and if any opportunity arises, I will give my best. I will keep practising for that one chance,” Saha told Sportskeeda on Friday.

Saha is the second wicketkeeper in India’s Test squad, after having recovered from COVID-19. The BCCI on Thursday announced the decision to include Andhra wicketkeeper KS Bharat in the squad as a backup for Saha.

On being asked how he could have contracted the virus, the Sunrisers Hyderabad wicketkeeper said, “The day before I returned positive, two to four CSK members showed symptoms. And two days before that, we had played versus Chennai and I was present at the ground. I had interacted with a few CSK guys during practice, so I feel that could have been the source.”