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Pujara out by Shami: Mohammed Shami teases Cheteshwar Pujara after dismissing him in IND warm up match

Dixit Bhargav
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Pujara out by Shami: Mohammed Shami teases Cheteshwar Pujara after dismissing him in IND warm up match

Pujara out by Shami video: The two senior Indian cricketers were facing each other at the Uptonsteel County Ground today.

During the second day of a one-off practice match between Leicestershire and India in Leicester, India fast bowler Mohammed Shami dismissed Leicestershire batter Cheteshwar Pujara (0) for a duck.

Pujara, who is representing Leicestershire alongside wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant and fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah and Prasidh Krishna to ensure more game time in a warm-up match such as this, lasted all of six deliveries before playing on a delivery.

Coming in to bat at No. 3 in the seventh over, Pujara aimed at punching a Shami delivery only to inside-edge the ball back to his stumps. A delivery which wasn’t very short and certainly not wide enough to play the punch, Pujara erred at his shot selection at the Grace Road today.

Shami, who opened the bowling for the visitors after they declared their innings on the overnight score of 246/8d, dismissed Leicestershire captain Sam Evans (1) before sending Pujara back to the pavilion. With Mohammed Siraj also chipping in with a couple of wickets, the hosts are in a bit of a trouble with Pant and Rishi Patel batting in the middle.

A friendly encounter between Shami and Pujara after the dismissal witnessed the former running up the latter to perhaps taunt him in a casual manner.

Pujara out by Shami video

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Dixit Bhargav

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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