After a five-match T20I series against South Africa at home, India have moved to England. They will play a multi-format series against the English team that will start on June 1.
The tour will start with the fifth and final rescheduled test and three T20Is and three ODIs afterwards. However, India will play a four-day warm-up match against Leicestershire before the first match.
The warm-up match is underway at Grace Road, Leicester. India won the toss and decided to bat first. At the end of Day 1, the visitors are at 246/8 after 60.2 overs. The game was stopped due to consistent rain. As a result, the stumps were called earlier.
For India, Srikar Bharat is batting at 70* and Mohammed Shami is batting at 18*. For Leicestershire, Roman Walker picked up five wickets, while Will Davis picked up two wickets. Apart from Bharat, Virat Kohli also looked good for his innings of 33 runs.
The former Indian skipper hit four boundaries and one six before giving out to a controversial LBW call. However, in his innings more than his shots, something else caught the eyes of everyone. Virat is known for enjoying every moment of the game, whether he is on the field or at the batting crease.
And he tried something different that was not related to his batting. Actually, Virat tried to imitate Joe Root’s magic trick at the non-striker’s end. Earlier, Joe Root surprised everyone when he was seen making his bat stand straight for 3-4 seconds in the first match against New Zealand at Lord’s.
Virat Kohli imitates Joe Root’s magic trick- Watch Video
During his batting innings, Virat also tried to do something like Joe Root. The video of him is going viral. However, he didn’t succeed in that, but he tried to do that.