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Cricket coaching camp in Bangalore in July
Bangalore, May 23: A nine-day coaching camp would be held here from July 3 in preparation for the Asia Cup to be held in Sri Lanka, BCCI secretary S K Nair said today. He told reporters after a meeting of the selection committee that the national team would be selected then. The camp would conclude on July 11 and the team would leave for the island nation on July 13.
Meanwhile, a fitness-specific conditioning camp for pace bowlers will be held here from June 7 to 12.
Those selected for this camp are Ashish Nehra, Ajit Agarkar, Irfan Pathan, L Balaji, Amit Bhandari, Munaf Patel, Avishkar Salvi, Srishanth, S S Paul, S Mathur, S Trivedi, N C Aiyappa, Gagandeep Singh, Jogender Sharma, Mohammed Faizal and T
Kumaran.
Thereafter, from June 13 to 19, a combined fitness camp will be held, in which some of those who attended the earlier one will also feature.
Those attending this week-long camp are Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammed Kaif, Parthiv Patel, Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, Murali Kartik, Ramesh Powar, Aakash Chopra, Hemang Badani, Sairaj Bahutule, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Agit Agarkar, Irfan Pathan, L Balaji, Munaf Patel, Amit Bhandari, Rohan Gavaskar and Gautham Gambhir, Nair said.
He clarified that the two camps in June are fitness specific -- and not cricket coaching ones -- and they would be overseen by physical trainer Gregory King. (Agencies)
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