IND vs ENG Test: Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah will play for opposite team

Team India will play one Test, 3 ODIs and 3 T20 matches with hosts England. The one-off Test against England will be played at Edgbaston from July 1. IND vs ENG Test: Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah will play for opposite team.

England county team will play four-day warm-up match against Rohit Sharma and Co. Leicestershire Foxes have announced that four Indian star cricketers Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah and Prasidh Krishna.

The crucial warm-up clash will be a tune-up for the Indian team ahead of the postponed IND vs ENG Test which will be played on July 1 at Edgbaston. The inclusion of four Indian players in Leicestershire will allow all members of the Indian team to get adequate match practice before the England clash.

The match will be played with 13 players per side to provide further flexibility and help manage bowling workloads. “Leicestershire CCC will welcome members from the India touring party into their side for tomorrow’s four-day tour match at Uptonsteel County Ground.

India superstars Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah and Prasidh Krishna will all team up with the Leicestershire squad, captained by opening batsman Sam Evans. LCCC, BCCI and the ECB have all agreed to allow the four players from the visiting camp to be part of the Running Foxes side, in order to allow all members of the travelling party to participate in the fixture (subject to fitness),” the LCCC said in a statement.

part from Evans, Pujara, Pant, Bumrah and Prasidh, the other players in the LCCC are Rehan Ahmed, Sam Bates (wk), Nat Bowley, Will Davis, Joey Evison, Louis Kimber, Abi Sakande and Roman Walker. India currently lead the series 2-1 as the last match was postponed after multiple COVID cases surfaced in the visitors’ camp.

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Squads:

India: Rohit Sharma (Capt), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, KS Bharat (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav.

Leicestershire CCC: Sam Evans (Capt), Rehan Ahmed, Sam Bates (wk), Nat Bowley, Will Davis, Joey Evison, Louis Kimber, Abi Sakande, Roman Walker, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah and Prasidh Krishna.