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India prefer India-A as opposition over county teams before Test series against England

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The Indian cricket team has opted to play two warm-up games against an India -A side instead of the earlier norm of playing practice games against county teams in the time leading up to the Test series against India. The warm-up games will be played on the county grounds of Northamptonshire and Leicestershire as Virat Kohli-led senior team will challenge an A side that will be picked later on.

These two warm-up games will be four-day fixtures and the first one will commence on July 21 at Wantage Road while the final warm-up game has been scheduled to take place from July 28. The series against England will begin at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on August 04.

The tickets for these warm-up games will be open for sale in March later this year.

The Indian team has shown apprehensions in the past about the quality of pitches and opposition they get in warm-up games and they have for a long time contemplated the option of skipping these practice games before the actual series as they had a belief that these games do not give too much value to their efforts of acclimatising with the pitches and conditions in the country.

India on the last tour in 2018 cut short a four-day fixture against Essex due to be played at Chelmsford to a three-day affair and also relegated the status of the game from a first-class fixture to practice game and instead decided to use the one extra day to practice before the first Test in Edgbaston.

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