Not long after the 3000-plus strong crowd walked home after India’s tour game at Northampton, Facebook pages around the county had a fresh photo update with a common caption — ‘Virat and me at the Northamptonshire Cricket Club’. Had the just-flown-in batsman Virat Kohli fielded on the fence for a little while longer, he would have sprained his wrist signing autographs, adding to the tremendously long list of casualties in the Indian dressing room. But towards the end of second session, Kohli’s bond with the crowd broke as an abusive fan triggered a flurry of activity in the stands before security guards escorted him out.
That lunch time ejection of a fan was the closest the Indians got to dismissing someone in the first two sessions of the second day. Both Northamptonshire openers were century makers — Mal Loye (100) and Niall O’Brien (117) — and they treated the Indian bowling attack as if it were from a lower division of the county circuit. At stumps, the home team that plays in the second (and lowest) rung finished at 355/7, with the side winning the match on their first innings lead.
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