Virat Kohli shows encouraging form in Leicestershire warm-up match

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Experimenting continues in Leicester

Indian players have featured for both sides throughout the four-day tour match against Leicestershire this week, and the experimentation stepped up a notch on the third day.

Players batted twice, Cheteshwar Pujara appeared for both teams and the India net bowlers put together much of the work on an interesting but uncompetitive day of action.

The opportunity to get more time in the middle for Pujara proved tough to resist as he switched sides, only to be stumped off the bowling of Sai Kishore.

Ravindra Jadeja and Shreyas Iyer both batted twice on the day too as they stepped up preparation for the rescheduled fifth Test against England next week.

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Light workload for Bumrah

Jasprit Bumrah was given the opportunity to send down four tidy overs on the day, conceding just eight runs in the process, before being wrapped back in cottonwool.

Leicestershire bowlers Roman Walker and Will Davis each sent down ten overs apiece on a day in which eight bowlers were used.

But getting the red ball back into Bumrah’s hands was encouraging ahead of the big clash in the World Test Championship at Edgbaston.

Promising form for Virat Kohli

It has been two-and-a-half years since Kohli last scored a Test century for India. But his form looks good ahead of the England fixture.

Kohli looked in decent nick as he stroked a fine fifty against the Leicestershire XI, and was the pick of the batters on show on Saturday after coming in at an unusually low number seven.

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