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Virat Kohli Rishabh Pant

Year Award in 2019. He is part of the Krishna have been added to the rival ticipate in the fixture (subject to fitness). Evison, Louis Kimber, Abi Sakande,
team that won the ICC Champions Leicestershire County Cricket Club The match will be played with Roman Walker, Cheteshwar Pujara,
Trophy in 2013. (LCCC) squad. They will play under 13 players per side to deliver further Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah and
In 45 Tests, Sharma has scored county captain Sam Evans. variations and help manage bowling Prasidh Krishna.
3,137 runs at an average of 46.13. His Captain Rohit Sharma will be workloads.
best score in the format is 2012. Eight leading India for their warm-up match India: Rohit Sharma (Capt), KOHLI GETTING SET FOR
centuries and 14 half-centuries have against Leicestershire as well as in Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas THE GAME
come out of Sharma’s bat in the lon- rescheduled Test match against En- Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, KS Bharat
gest format of the game. gland, starting on July 1 at Edgbaston. (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thak- ndia batter Virat Kohli on Tues-
In the T20I format, Sharma has LCCC, BCCI and the ECB have ur, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed day shared a glimpse from his
featured in 125 games for India. He all approved allowing the four players Siraj and Umesh Yadav. Itraining session as he was seen
has scored 3,313 runs in the shortest from the visiting camp to be part of the Leicestershire CCC: Sam Evans preparing for the upcoming resched-
format of the game at an average of Running Foxes side, in order to allow all (Capt), Rehan Ahmed, Sam Bates uled fifth Test against England at Old
32.48. His best individual score in the members of the travelling party to par- (wk), Nat Bowley, Will Davis, Joey Trafford starting on July 1.
format is 118. He has scored four cen- India will lock horns with En-
turies and 26 half-centuries in this for- gland for the rescheduled fifth Test
mat for India. He is part of the 2007 next month but before that the visi-
T20 World Cup-winning team. tors have started training upon arriv-
He was also named among Wis- ing. Kohli, the former India captain,
den’s Five Cricketers of the Year in on Tuesday shared pictures from his
their 2022 edition. In the same year, he training session on the Koo app.
was named India’s all-format captain. “Practice well. Stay happy,” Kohli
A WARM-UP GAME TO WATCH captioned the post on the Koo app.
Kohli was the skipper of Team
head of the fifth scheduled India when the five-match Test series
Test match against England against England was originally played
Aon July 1, team India will lock in 2021. Meanwhile, Indian all-round-
horns with Leicestershire in a four- er Ravichandran Ashwin could not
day warm-up match beginning on board the flight to England after be-
Thursday. ing tested positive for COVID-`19.
The rescheduled match is a part The off-spinner came to Mumbai to
of last year’s five-match Test series travel with the Test team on June 16
that had to be delayed after the fourth but now he is in quarantine.
Test due to a Covid-19 outbreak in the The 35-year-old will only join the
Indian camp. The warm-up fixture Test squad after meeting all protocol
will be an opportunity for the Men in requirements. The rest of the mem-
Blue to get into cement themself in bers of the Indian Test squad are al-
the new condition after a long time for ready in Leicester and training has be-
the all-important fifth Test. gun in Leicestershire County Ground
The series is in favour of the visi- where they will play a 4-day practice
tors, who are leading 2-1 after defeat- match from June 24.
ing the hosts in the fourth Test at the India currently leads the Test se-
Oval last year by 157 runs. ries 2-1. The fifth Test match, which
Meanwhile, star players of the In- was supposed to be held in Old Traf-
dian team Cheteshwar Pujara, Rish- Rohit Sharma made his debut in 2007 ford, Manchester last year, was can-
abh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah and Prasidh celled due to COVID-19.

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