India vs Leicestershire Live: Pant, Pujara, Bumrah to play for Leicestershire against Rohit-led India in warm-up match

India vs Leicestershire Live: India superstars Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah and Prasidh Krishna will all team up with the Leicestershire squad against Rohit Sharma-led India in warm-up match

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 match will be played with 13 players per side to provide further flexibility and help manage bowling workloads.

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India arrived in Leicestershire on Sunday, before they undertook their first training. And net session at Uptonsteel County Ground on Monday morning.

Therefore, the world’s second-best Test ranked side have trained for three days. Ahead of four-day fixture against the Running Foxes. That also proceeds the rescheduled Fifth Test against England at Edgbaston at the start of July.

Vice-Captain KL Rahul and also Ravichandran Ashwin have both been unable to travel. After originally selected in India’s 17-man touring party.

India Squad:

Rohit Sharma (Capt), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant (wk), KS Bharat (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Prasidh Krishna.

Leicestershire CCC Squad:

Sam Evans (Capt), Rehan Ahmed, Sam Bates (wk), Nat Bowley, Will Davis, Joey Evison, Louis Kimber, Abi Sakande, Roman Walker.

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