Pant bats despite injury but will not keep wicket

India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant returned to bat despite his foot injury on day two of the fourth Test against England, but will not keep wicket for the rest of the match.

After being unable to walk having been hit on day one, Pant, 27, resumed on 37 and made 54 in India's 358 all out.

He re-emerged to a standing ovation when Shardul Thakur was caught to leave his side 314-6, hobbled throughout his innings and struck Jofra Archer for a six over the leg side.

The crowd rose again when he limped off, having had his off stump uprooted by Archer.

Changes to cricket's laws in 2017 mean substitute fielder Dhruv Jurel is able to take the gloves for the remainder of the Test, as he did in the third Test at Lord's when Pant injured a finger.

India remain coy on the nature of Pant's injury, which came when he was hit on the boot by a delivery from Chris Woakes on the first evening.

He could bat again in India's second innings but significant doubts remain about his availability for the rest of the series.

The flamboyant left-hander, who returned to Test cricket last September almost two years after a car crash in which he nearly lost his life, has been one of the players of the series prior to his injury.

His fifty on day two, his third of the summer in addition to centuries in each innings of the first Test, took his run total to 479 in the series.

In doing so he also passed former England captain Alec Stewart as the highest-scoring wicketkeeper in a single Test series in England.