Kohli Team India reach Durham for warm-up matches ahead of Test series

India Tour of England: Virat Kohli’s Team India reach Durham for warm-up matches ahead of Test series against England- Virat Kohli-led India on Friday reached Durham to play a three-day practice match. Team India will begin their preparations for the upcoming five-match Test series against England with a warm-up game at Emirates Riverside against County XI starting on Tuesday. The players sweat it out during a practice session and also celebrated the birthday of fielding coach R Sridhar, BCCI tweeted.

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Hello, Durham. Great to be here 🌞#TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/grKVbb7VOF

— BCCI (@BCCI) July 16, 2021

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India Tour of England: Virat Kohli’s Team India reach Durham for warm-up matches ahead of Test series against England

Meanwhile, members of the Indian cricket team other than two positive cases of Rishabh Pant and a member of the support staff – have tested negative, as per information available on insidesport.co

🇮🇳#TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/8dOk8uYM7W

— BCCI (@BCCI) July 16, 2021

According to the BCCI sources – all Indian team players including all 3 quarantined members of the team i.e wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha, back-up opener Abhimanyu Easwaran & bowling coach Bharat Arun have all tested negative in the first round of RT-PCR Tests. However, the four personnel are undergoing 10-day isolation and will remain in their respective rooms in the team hotel in London as per COVID-19 protocols.

County Select XI squad: Will Rhodes (Warwickshire – captain), Rehan Ahmed (Leicestershire), Tom Aspinwell (Lancashire), Ethan Bamber (Middlesex), James Bracey (Gloucestershire), Jack Carson (Sussex), Zak Chappell (Nottinghamshire), Haseeb Hameed (Nottinghamshire), Lyndon James (Nottinghamshire), Jake Libby (Worcestershire), Craig Miles (Warwickshire), Liam Patterson-White (Nottinghamshire), James Rew (Somerset), Rob Yates (Warwickshire).

India tour of England: Virat Kohli & Co to face Will Rhodes-led County Select XI in practice match

India tour of England: schedule and squad

India’s tour of England, 2021-22
Sr.	Date	Match	Venue

1	4^th – 8^th August	1^st Test vs England	Nottingham
2	12^th – 16^th August	2^nd Test vs England	London (Lord’s)
3	25^th – 29^th August	3^rd Test vs England	Leeds
4	2^nd – 6^th September	4^th Test vs England	London (Oval)
5	10^th – 14^th September	5^th Test vs England	Manchester

India’s squad: Rohit Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (Captain), Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), Hanuma Vihari, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), R. Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma, Mohd. Shami, Md. Siraj, Shardul Thakur, Umesh Yadav, KL Rahul, Wriddhiman Saha (wicket-keeper).

Standby players: Abhimanyu Easwaran, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Arzan Nagwaswalla

India Tour of England: Virat Kohli’s Team India reach Durham for warm-up matches ahead of Test series against England

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