India’s Tour Of England: Bowling Dominated Practice Match

India's Tour Of England: Bowling Dominated Practice Match
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India’s Tour Of England: Mohammad Shami And Ravindra Jadeja Took Three Wickets Each, And Indians Bundled Out Leicestershire For 244 Runs. Rishabh Pant hit a half-century. Team India’s bowlers, who are preparing for the fifth and final Test match against England to be held from July 1 to 5, performed brilliantly on the second day of the practice match between Leicestershire-Indians on Friday. Indian players included in the team of Indians and Leicestershire are making every effort to adapt to the conditions there.

On the one hand, the Indians declared their first innings at 246 runs for eight wickets. After that, the bowlers Mohammad Shami, Mohammad Siraj, Ravindra Jadeja, and Shardul Thakur bowled brilliantly. Leicestershire’s team could only score 244 runs in the first innings. Shami and Jadeja took three wickets each while Shardul and Siraj took two wickets each. Rishabh Pant top-scored for Leicestershire with 76 runs.

Indians lead by 82 runs

In reply, India took 82 runs in the second innings by making 80 for 1 wicket till the stumps. Shubman Gil and Shrikar Bharat came out to open for the Indians. However, Gill could not last long and was dismissed for 38 runs in 34 balls with eight fours. At the time of stumps, Bharat was 31 not out and Hanuma Vihari was on the crease after scoring 9 runs. This practice match is very important for Indian batsmen, in such a situation, captain Rohit Sharma, Virat’s absence is beyond comprehension.

Hardik reached Ireland

Team India’s second team, including captain Hardik Pandya, fast bowler Umran Malik, and Avesh Khan, reached Ireland on Friday. The matches of the 2-match T20 series between India and Ireland are to be played on 26 and 28 June in Dublin here. For this Dinesh Karthik, Ishaan Kishan, and Axar Patel. Many players including Sanju Samson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, and Ravi Bishnoi had already reached Dublin. At the same time, captain Hardik and other players arrived on Friday. Indian players have also started preparations for the T20 series.

Mayank Agarwal did not get a chance on the team

In Team India, KL Rahul was injured before the start of the tour. Shubman Gill can now get a chance to open instead of Rahul. The selectors could have given an opportunity to Mayank Agarwal in the team as a replacement for Rahul, but the selectors have not given him a chance.

Team India statistics so far

Mayank Agarwal has played for Team India as an opener as well as in the middle order. Mayank Agarwal has played a total of 21 Test matches for India so far. Mayank Agarwal has recorded 1488 runs in these matches at an average of 41.33. He has also scored 5 half-centuries and 4 centuries so far.

India’s Tour Of England Team India for the England tour

Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant (WK), KS Bharat (WK), Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Prasiddh Krishna.