SHOWERS that began the previous night and persisted through yesterday morning and afternoon ended any chance of play on the second day of the India’s warm-up match against Leicestershire.

The umpires meant to carry out an inspection at 12:30hrs, but their decision was made easier by the rain, which came down heavily, having stopped for an hour-long interval around lunch.
The covers had not been removed from overnight with the incessant drizzles dampening one of the largest outfields in cricket, while causing large puddles across the covers that the ground staff worked hard to clear but in vain.
Incidentally the BCCI twitter even tweeted a premature message an hour before lunch: “Second day’s play of the warm-up between Leicestershire and India has been called off due to rain.”
Having managed quality batting time the Indians did not seem overly bothered. The visitors came to the ground at noon before heading to the indoor nets where they trained under the watchful eye of their coach Duncan Fletcher.

(ESPN Cricinfo)