{"id":3940,"date":"2022-06-25T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T04:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=230021"},"modified":"2022-06-25T09:54:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T04:24:05","slug":"india-v-leicester-day-2-highlights-rishabh-pant-top-scores-for-the-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/india-v-leicester-day-2-highlights-rishabh-pant-top-scores-for-the-host\/","title":{"rendered":"India v Leicester Day 2 highlights: Rishabh Pant top-scores for the host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India was 80 for one at day 2\u00a0conclusion, 82 runs ahead of the hosts. Hanuma Vihari was batting at 9, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/news\/topic\/ks-bharat\/\">KS Bharat<\/a> was unbeaten at 31. Before being removed on 38, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Shubman+Gill\">Shubman Gill<\/a> had previously given India a quick start.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, India knocked out Leicestershire for 244 after taking three wickets each from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Ravindra+Jadeja\">Ravindra Jadeja<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Mohammed+Shami\">Mohammed Shami<\/a>. India gained a two-run advantage going into their second innings as a result.<\/p>\n<p>With a superb fifty before being bowled out on 76, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rishabh+Pant\">Rishabh Pant<\/a> top-scored for the host\u00a0team. Pant scored 76 runs off 87 balls while hitting 14 fours and a six. Mohammed Shami removed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Cheteshwar+Pujara\">Cheteshwar Pujara<\/a> for a duck after he failed to match Pant\u2019s performance for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Team India\u2019s lone bright spot on Day 1 was Bharat, since the first day was cut short owing to rain. Despite struggling in the cloudy weather, Indian batsmen managed to pick up 246\/8 with KS Bharat scoring an undefeated 70. He and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Virat+Kohli\">Virat Kohli<\/a>\u2018s 57-run partnership helped India recover after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rohit+Sharma\">Rohit Sharma<\/a>\u2018s team fell to 81\/5.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That's Stumps on Day 2 of the practice match. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> post 80\/1 on the board in the second innings before the close of play, with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KonaBharat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KonaBharat<\/a> (31) & <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hanumavihari?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Hanumavihari<\/a> (9) in the middle. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShubmanGill?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ShubmanGill<\/a>, meanwhile, scored a quickfire 38. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leicsccc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@leicsccc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vfML9Ul9wj\">pic.twitter.com\/vfML9Ul9wj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1540385394273169408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the warm-up\u00a0match against Leicestershire, India finished Day 2 with an 82-run lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3342],"class_list":["post-3940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-leicestershire-county-cricket-club"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}