India Tour of England: Shubman Gill loses GOLDEN opportunity in KL Rahul's absence

India Tour of England: India vs Leicestershire Live Updates – In the absence of opening batter KL Rahul, who is currently nursing an injury, Shubman Gill has a fantastic opportunity to nail his place as India’s first-choice opening partner of skipper Rohit Sharma in Test cricket. However, the youngster failed in his first Test, as he could not impress in the ongoing four-day warm-up game against Leicestershire. Follow India Tour of England, India vs Leicestershire live updates with InsideSport.IN.

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Notably, ahead of the Test match at Edgbaston against England, which will commence on 1^st July, India is playing a four-day warm-up game against county side Leicestershire. This match comes as an opportunity for the Indian players to impress head coach Rahul Dravid ahead of the main test, but Shubman Gill failed to do so.

India Tour of England: Shubman Gill loses GOLDEN opportunity in KL Rahul’s absence, throws away good start in WARM-UP game against Leicester: Check OUT

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The first @BCCI wicket falls, as Gill gets a thin edge through to Pant. @w_davis44 claims the scalp.

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The lad from Punjab initially looked in good touch, smacking two boundaries off Jasprit Bumrah’s bowling and as many against Will Davis. However, the latter had the last laugh as he got his wicket in the second delivery of the 10^th over.

Davis pitched the ball outside off-stump, which Gill could have left but instead tried to offer a shot. However, he could not get the desired connection and ended up edging the ball straight into the gloves of Indian wicketkeeper-batter, Rishabh Pant, who is playing for Leicestershire in this match. Overall, Gill scored 21 runs from 25 deliveries.

India Tour of England: Shubman Gill loses GOLDEN opportunity in KL Rahul’s absence, throws away good start in WARM-UP game against Leicester: Check OUT

Meanwhile, it is not only him who had a poor day with the bat, as almost every Indian batter failed to stand up to Leicestershire’s attack. At the time of writing, India were struggling at 86/5, with Virat Kohli and Kona Srikar Bharat on the crease.

Squads

India: Rohit Sharma (Capt), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, KS Bharat (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav.

Leicestershire CCC: Sam Evans (Capt), Rehan Ahmed, Sam Bates (wk), Nat Bowley, Will Davis, Joey Evison, Louis Kimber, Abi Sakande, Roman Walker, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah and Prasidh Krishna.

India Squad for England – ENG vs IND squad

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

Here is the revised schedule for the 2022 India tour of England:

England vs India Test series schedule

5th Test: Edgbaston | July 1-5

England vs India 2022, T20I series schedule

1st T201: Ageas Bowl | July 7

2nd T20I: Edgbaston | July 9

3rd T20I: Trent Bridge | July 10

England vs India 2022, ODI series schedule

1st ODI: Kia Oval | July 12

2nd ODI: Lord’s | July 14

3rd ODI: Manchester | July 17

India Tour of England: Shubman Gill loses GOLDEN opportunity in KL Rahul’s absence, throws away good start in WARM-UP game against Leicester: Check OUT

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