'Select County XI' for warm-up game against India: ECB

The tentative date could be between July 20-22

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is working on COVID-19 protocols to organise a warm-up game for the touring Indian team against 'Combined Counties' side in the third week of July as a tune-up for the first Test in Nottingham starting August 4. The three-day match, which might be accorded first-class status, will pit the Indian team against a 'Select County XI' which in earlier times was known as 'Combined Counties'. The tentative date could be between July 20-22. "We are aware of a request from the BCCI to play a three-day warm-up match against a County Select XI as part of the Indian Men’s Test teams build-up to the five-match LV= Insurance Test series," an ECB spokesperson told PTI.