Seven of India's Test specialists may play a few games for various English county sides to prepare for the inaugural World Test Championship series in July and August. The players that BCCI have zeroed in are Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Prithvi Shaw, Hanuma Vihari, Mayank Agarwal, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ishant Sharma, who will play County cricket. "Pujara's contract was a deal between him and the county and it's a long term deal," a senior BCCI official told PTI on Friday. Ideally, the BCCI is looking at three to maximum four first-class games for its players before the West Indies series. We are hopeful that all our seven Test players will be playing either Division 1 or 2 of the English county," he said.

Source: dna April 19, 2019 11:15 UTC