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Bangalore, July 25: Team India will explore novel ways of training as the cricketers set off for a surprise destination outside Bangalore city tomorrow to kick off the conditioning camp for next month's tri-series in Sri Lanka.
"Tomorrow morning, the team will leave for a place outside Bangalore for teaming up and doing a lot of physical training. It will not be open to the media," trainer Gregory King told reporters today.
King said the team management favoured adopting new techniques of training keeping in view its usefulness."It is a team management decision to try out new techniques. In the past too, we tried out a few new things which produced positive results," he said. "I want to keep the players unprepared at what we are going to do in next three days.
It will not be very different from the camps we had in last three years. We would like to try out something different," he said.
The players will be back to the NCA premises in Bangalore on July 28 evening.
The next morning, they will be put through medical and skill assessments apart from body composition assessment. King said since the three-day training session would be very demanding in nature, there would be a recovery session -- yoga, swimming and teki -- for the cricketers in the evening on July 29. "Teki is also a good method of training. It is all about balance and focus.
The players won't have normally encountered these activities before," he said. So far, Irfan Pathan, Suresh Raina, V V S Laxman, Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh have reported at the camp. Coach Greg Chappell, who is currently holidaying in the US, will join the team on August 4. (Agencies)
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