The Indian cricket team is currently engaged in a warm-up match against Leicester, where they train hard for the one-off Test against England to be played on 1 July. This is a practice match where you are allowed to swap sides. , Four Indian players famously Krishan, Rishabh Pant, Cheteshwar Pujara, and Jasprit Bumrah came for Leicester and had a lot of fun on the field on the first day. While Bumrah used this time to bowl long spells for the hosts on the first day, Pujara was enjoying his time on the field. However, on the second day, the Saurashtra batsman came out to bat and got an idea of the strength of this Indian bowling line-up.
With Bumrah absent, Shami spoke to the ball and managed to dismiss Pujara for a duck, who had played just five deliveries up to this point. The funniest part of his dismissal was the celebration of Shami, who usually doesn’t do over-the-top celebrations. But on Friday, he let his hair down and celebrated as before, he took a jump and landed on Pujara’s shoulder. Watch full video.
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Wicketkeeper Srikar Bharat smashed an unbeaten 70 as India’s top-order failed to practice batting on the opening day of the warm-up match against Leicestershire here on Thursday.
Elected to bat after winning the toss, India’s top guns failed to fire as the visitors reached 246 for eight at the end of the game at 81 for five.
Bharat shone during his 158-minute stay in the middle before the rain, ending the day’s proceedings at Grace Road early.
Overall, the 28-year-old Andhra batsman faced 111 balls and hit eight fours and a six. At the time of stump, Mohammed Shami was giving company to India for 18 runs.
Captain Rohit Sharma (25) and Shubman Gill (21) were dismissed after starting. The opening pair, who are set to open India’s innings in the one-sided ‘Fifth Test’, put on 35 runs for the first wicket, the latter being dismissed by fast-medium bowler Will Davis.
India’s first-choice wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant, who was representing the English county side along with Cheteshwar Pujara, Jasprit Bumrah and Pramukh Krishna, took the catch of Gill, who found the fence four times for 38 minutes.
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