Workforce India acquired a large enhance on June 23 (Thursday) after their star off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin joined the squad, set to England in a rescheduled Take a look at match slated to start out from July 1 (Friday) at Edgbaston in Birmingham.
To notice, Ashwin joined the Indian camp forward of the four-day observe match towards County facet Leicestershire. The distinguished all-rounder had earlier missed the flight to England as he had examined constructive for Covid-19. Nevertheless, he has accomplished all the mandatory protocols earlier than becoming a member of the workforce.
The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) shared just a few photographs on Twitter from the observe session of the workforce earlier than the beginning of the warm-up match between India and Leicestershire.
Hey and welcome to Day 1 of our observe match towards @leicsccc #TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/nUilsYz5fT
— BCCI (@BCCI) June 23, 2022
India skipper Rohit Sharma gained the toss towards Leicestershire and opted to bat first. Senior batter Cheteshwar Pujara, wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant, pacer Jasprit Bumrah and Prasidh Krishna are taking part in for Leicestershire. The Indian followers will even need that each Rohit and Virat Kohli rating runs on this tour and assist their facet win.
“Licestershire CCC will welcome members from the India touring get together into their facet for tomorrow’s four-day tour match at Uptonsteel County Floor. India superstars Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah and Prasidh Krishna will all workforce up with the Leicestershire squad, captained by opening batsman Sam Evans. LCCC, BCCI and the ECB have all agreed to permit the 4 gamers from the visiting camp to be a part of the Operating Foxes facet, with the intention to permit all members of the travelling get together to take part within the fixture (topic to health),” the LCCC had stated in an announcement.
“The match will probably be performed with 13 gamers per facet to offer additional flexibility and assist handle bowling workloads,” the assertion added. After the warm-up recreation, the guests are slated to play the rescheduled Take a look at match adopted by three T20Is and the identical variety of ODIs from July 7 to 17.
