It will be very unusual if Rishabh Pant comes back to bat in the second innings given the swelling and pain he suffered from day 1 at Manchester. In the third Test at Lord's, Rishabh sustained a finger injury, for which Dhruv Jurel did the wicketkeeping as a substitute player. However, Rishabh Pant did bat in both innings. In the first innings, he scored 75 runs but suffered a mindless run-out trying to give the strike to KL Rahul, who was nearing his hundred. If not similar things, but the sweep wasn't necessary for Rishabh Pant against Chris Woakes. Earlier he did sweep Jofra Archer and had tried the same against Woakes, but he missed the line. The ball came straight and crashed on his boots. Rishabh was suffering in pain, threw off his pads and boots, and took some treatment, but ultimately left the field in a buggy. Even if the scan reports are not in hand, the injury looks brutal. The ball seems to have hit a joint below his thumb; it might rule him out of the entire series, let alone just the match! Before the squad selection for the fourth Test, there were thoughts that Dhruv Jurel would be added as a keeper and Pant would be playing as a specialist batter. With eight days in between, Pant recovered from his thumb injury of his hand and took on both responsibilities in the fourth Test, but alas! Jurel is likely to come back, but England will still have an extra batter. At least that's what the ICC Rules say. Read also: Watch: Pant Gets Loud Cheers, Gill Booed in Manchester Will the ICC Rules allow Dhruv Jurel to bat? The International Cricket Council has a pretty law named the "like-for-like replacements," where a player of the same capabilities can take the field in place of an injured player. But the catch is, the injury has to be on the head or the neck! The ICC Code 1.2.7.1 says, If a player sustains a concussion or suspected concussion as a result of a head or neck injury during the course of the relevant match, a Concussion Replacement may be permitted in the following circumstances: - 1.2.7.1.1 the head or neck injury must have been sustained during play and within the playing area described in clause 1.2.5.2 above; - 1.2.7.1.2 a concussion or suspected concussion must have been formally diagnosed by the Team Medical Representative Thus, it's quite obvious that Jurel will be doing the wicketkeeping job again without getting the chance to bat. Read also: WATCH: Woakes Unleashes Brutal Delivery That Breaks Jaiswal’s Bat England's point of view on substitue Recently, in a talk show, former English captains Michael Vaughan and Alastair Cook had varied views. While Vaughan said, india deserves a batting sub, Cook countered, what if Rishabh's bone is not broken! In a talk show of Test match Special, Vaughan said, 'I don't like the fact that we've got four days left in the game — four days of action in what has been an incredible series — where we are going to have ten versus eleven. I prefer that you'd have a sub. You know, once they brought in concussion subs, I was crying out, saying, ‘Well, just have substitutions then in the first innings of a game.’ That would be my stepping point. If it happens in the second innings, I feel that team might kind of break the rules or indulge in a bit of skullduggery. But if it's clear and obvious — when someone breaks a hand or a foot or ruptures a calf — it's so evident that someone is in real pain and can't carry on. I think it's very clear to me: you should be allowed a sub."