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India National Cricket Team vs South Africa National Cricket Team Match Scorecard: The swashbuckling batter Rishabh Pant has engraved his name in the annals of Indian cricket history, becoming the second designated wicketkeeper-batter to lead the national team in Test cricket in 93 years.

Pant achieved his milestone in his maiden Test captaincy, as he led India against South Africa in the second Test at Guwahati's Barsapara Cricket Stadium.

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The wicketkeeper-batter replaced Shubman Gill, who was ruled out of the Test due to a neck injury that he suffered on Day 2 of the opening encounter.

Notably, since India played its first Test in 1932, a total of 38 players have led India, but Pant became only the second designated wicketkeeper-batter to captain India after legendary Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

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Full list of India's Test captains - Number of matches

1. CK Nayudu (1932-1934) - 4

2. Maharajkumar of Vizianagram (1936-1936) - 3

3. IAK Pataudi (1946-1946) - 3

4. Lala Amarnath (1947-1952) - 15

5. Vijay Hazare (1951-1953) - 14

6. Vinoo Mankad (1955-1959) - 6

7. Ghulam Ahmed (1955-1959) - 3

8. Polly Umrigar (1955-1958) - 8

9. Hemu Adhikari (1959-1959) - 1

10. Datta Gaekwad (1959-1959) - 4

11. Pankaj Roy (1959-1959) - 1

12. GS Ramchand (1959-1960) - 5

13. Nari Contractor (1960-1962) - 12

14. MIAK Pataudi (1962-1975) - 40

15. Chandu Borde (1967-1967) - 1

16. Ajit Wadekar (1971-1974) - 16

17. S Venkataraghavan (1974-1979) - 5

18. Sunil Gavaskar (1976-1985) - 47

19. Bishan Bedi (1976-1978) - 22

20. Gundappa Viswanath (1980-1980) - 2

21. Kapil Dev (1983-1987) - 34

22. Dilip Vengsarkar (1987-1989) - 10

23. Ravi Shastri (1988-1988) - 1

24. K Srikkanth (1989-1989) - 4

25. Mohammad Azharuddin (1990-1999) - 47

26. Sachin Tendulkar (1996-2000) - 25

27. Sourav Ganguly (2000-2005) - 49

28. Rahul Dravid (2003-2007) - 25

29. Virender Sehwag (2005-2012) - 4

30. Anil Kumble (2007-2008) - 14

31. MS Dhoni (2008-2014) - 60

32. Virat Kohli (2014-2022) - 68

33. Ajinkya Rahane (2017-2021) - 6

34. KL Rahul (2022-2022) - 3

35. Rohit Sharma (2022-2024) - 24

36. Jasprit Bumrah (2022-2025) - 3

37. Shubman Gill (2025*) - 8

38. Rishabh Pant (2025*) - 1

Meanwhile, South Africa captain Temba Bavuma won the toss and opted to bat against India in the second Test here on Saturday.

The Proteas head into the game with flying confidence as they are leading the two-match series 1-0 after winning the first Test in Kolkata by 30 runs.

India made two more changes with B Sai Sudharsan and Nitish Kumar Reddy replacing Shubman Gill and Axar Patel.

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India National Cricket Team vs South Africa National Cricket Team Players

South Africa (Playing XI): Aiden Markram, Ryan Rickelton, Wiaan Mulder, Temba Bavuma(c), Tony de Zorzi, Tristan Stubbs, Kyle Verreynne(w), Marco Jansen, Senuran Muthusamy, Simon Harmer, Keshav Maharaj.

India (Playing XI): KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sai Sudharsan, Dhruv Jurel, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.

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