India has tightened the screws against Leicestershire in its four-day warm-up match. Mohammed Shami dismissed Cheteshwar Pujara for a duck, while the former's celebration had fans wondering.
India has travelled to England for a month-long tour, while it is currently involved in a four-day warm-up game against Leicestershire. Being played at Grace Road in Leicester on Friday, Day 2 of the match, India tightened its screws with the ball, scalping four wickets of the hosts before the lunch break. Also, Indian seamer Mohammed Shami dismissed top-order batter Cheteshwar Pujara, with the latter playing for Leicestershire. After facing six deliveries, he played it onto his stumps as he was sent back for an unfortunate duck. Meanwhile, Shami was involved in a funny celebration, which confused fans.
Mohammad Shami picks Cheteshwar Pujara in the warm up game and later apologise for it. pic.twitter.com/3mQRoYE6U2
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra)It happened to be a seamed-up delivery from Shami. With the ball rising, Pujara jumped faintly in the air and tried to cut it towards the point region, only for the ball to take the bottom edge of the bad and crash into the stumps. Following the dismissal, Shami performed his one-arm raised in the air celebration.
Cheteshwar Pujara gone for Duck in the warm up match. Mohammed Shami gets him. He is on fire, two wickets in two overs.
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Shami cleans Cheteshwar Pujara for a duck and celebrates the dismissal by jumping on him 😂 pic.twitter.com/j4wEU5jEZR
— MR🌞🐍 BUSY & LAZY (@MRxTweetz_)As Pujara began to walk back to the pavilion, Shami tailgated him with his celebration and jumped onto the former's back cheekily. Shami must have said something to Pujara, which did not bother the latter, as he continued his long walk back to the pavilion, seemingly dejected. On the other hand, the former was delighted with the wickets, as he celebrated with other members of the hosts.
Both are fantastic players ideally suited to Tests, so they should play irrespectively. But, don't judge them on their CC scores.
Ask them to score big consistently on tracks like this one at the Grace Road & they'll struggle.
Match summary
Winning the toss on Day 1, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma opted to bat, as the visitors posted a decent total of 246/8 by Day 2, thanks to Srikar Bharat's top knock of an unbeaten 70, whereas, for the hosts, pacer Roman Walker bagged five. As for Leicestershire's batting, it has lost six wickets by the post-lunch session, with Rishabh Pant currently unbeaten as the top scorer, while Shami has scalped three.
Brief scores: IND 246/8 (Bharat- 70; Walker- 5/24) leads LEIC 138/6 (Pant- 36*; Shami- 3/34) by 108 runs.