35 players start training at NCA

Thirty-five players on the fringe of the Indian team have checked into the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore for a training camp that would end on July 31. The camp includes players from two teams who will play in the Emerging Players tournament in Australia from July 14 and the tour of Israel from July 13 to 16.

The camp started with the coaches having one-on-one sessions with the batsmen and the bowlers. On June 14, players will be put through a drill by Paul Chapman, the strengthening and conditioning coach, and Paul Close, the physiotherapist.

Players: Shikhar Dhawan, Manoj Tiwary, S Badrinath, Ashok Dinda, Siddharth Trivedi, Munaf Patel, Ajit Agarkar, Ashish Nehra, L Balaji (who is going to UK on June 15 for a three-week stint), VRV Singh, Pankaj Singh, Parthiv Patel, Amit Mishra, Ajinkya Rahane, M Vijay, Abhishek Nayar, Ravindra Jadeja, Vijaykumar Yomahesh, Sudeep Tyagi, Vinay Kumar, Moondeep Mangela, Samad Fallah, Ranadeb Bose, Basanth Mohanty, Pritamjit Das, Wriddhiman Saha, Swapnil Asnodkar, DB Ravi Teja, Yogesh Takawale, Mohnish Parmar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rakesh Dhurv, Pinal Shah, Iqbal Abdullah and P Vijaykumar.

Coaching and conditioning staff: Dav Whatmore, Dinesh Nanavati, Praveen Amre, B Arun, Chinmoy Roy, Afzal Khan, Vaibhav Daga, Shivshankar, Vijay Rathore, V Venkatram, Pradeep Kasliwal, R. Sridhar, Munish Bali and Sanath Kumar. GR Viswanath and L Sivaramakrishnan will be consultants.