Before the tour game against Leicestershire, Team India “sweats it out in nets. ” The Indian players were seen sweating it out at the Uptonsteel Cricket Ground. In a video shared by the BCCI on their official Twitter handle in order to get match ready.
Team India will play Leicestershire in a four-day Tour match beginning later on Thursday. Ahead of their rescheduled fifth Test against England. The Rohit Sharma-led team arrived in England last week and has been hard at work preparing for the much-anticipated Edgbaston Test. The Indian players seen sweating it out at the Uptonsteel Cricket Ground. In order to get match ready in a video shared by the BCCI on their official Twitter handle. ” The grind has begun. #TeamIndia works hard in the nets in preparation for the reschedule fifth. #ENGvIND Test “The video captioned by the BCCI.
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Watch: Team India “sweats it out in nets.”
— BCCI (@BCCI) June 23, 2022
While Rohit will captain the Indian team, former captain Virat Kohli will also play for the first time since the end of the IPL 2022.
Both Rohit and Kohli were absent from South Africa’s recent five-match T20I series.
Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah, and Prasidh Krishna will all play for the County side, which will be led by Sam Evans.
This will be the Indian team’s only warm-up game before the rescheduled fifth Test against England in Edgbaston on July 1.
Last year, the fifth Test postponed due to a Covid outbreak in the Indian camp. India currently leads the series 2-1.
India’s squad for the rescheduled fifth Test vs England:
Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Srikar Bharat (wk)
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