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Virat Kohli’s 67 runs; Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja also scored half-centuries in the practice match. Cricket News – Times of India

June 25, 2022
Bharat Times

Leicester: Virat Kohli Showing his class, played a brilliant innings of 67 runs in 98 balls Shreyas Iyer (62) and Ravindra Jadeja (56 not out) also got enough batting practice as India finished the second innings at 364 for seven against Leicestershire on the third day of the four-day warm-up match here on Saturday.
Kohli, who has been performing poorly for a long time, decorated his innings with five fours and two sixes.
Iyer scored 89 balls with the help of 11 fours, and Jadeja hit 10 fours during his unbeaten innings.

But Cheteshwar Pujara could only score 22 runs in 53 balls with the help of three fours. Pujara batted from both sides. He was dismissed for zero in Leicestershire’s first innings on Friday.
Jadeja too was dismissed for a duck by Navdeep Saini at the start of the Indian second innings but later came out to bat again as it was just a practice match.
Mohammad Siraj (1 not out) was supporting Jadeja at stumps.
Fast bowler Navdeep Saini (3/55), one of four Indian players to play for Leicestershire, took three wickets for the county side.
Another Indian player Kamlesh Nagarkoti (2/48) also took two wickets, while R Sai Kishore (1/55) and Will Davis (1/400) took one wicket each.
The visiting Indians are still ahead of Leicestershire by 366 runs at stumps with a day’s play left in the match.
Earlier, Saini, who took the wicket of Shubman Gill on the second day, dismissed well-established Srikar Bharat (43 for 98) and Jadeja (0) in three balls to bowl India out for 118 for 4.
But it was Hanuma Vihari (20), who was the first to be dismissed by Will Davis, adding just 11 runs to his overnight score.
Seventeen runs later, Saini hit a double in an over in the form of Bharat and Jadeja.
Nagakoti contributed from Iyer and Shardul Thakur (28 off 38) in the space of seven overs.
But before being dismissed, Shardul put on a 39-run partnership in the company of Kohli, who came out to bat at the unusual number 7.
Pujara didn’t help his cause as he was stumped by Sam Bates off Sai Kishore.
Kohli was dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah (1/30), while Iyer was the last batsman to be dismissed by Nagarkoti.
captain Rohit SharmaMohammed Shami and Umesh Yadav still have to bat.