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Ahead of the Indian team’s fitness camp beginning in Bangalore on July 25 medium pacer Irfan Pathan began preparing for the Tri-series in Sri Lanka at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore.

Pathan arrived in Bangalore on Friday for a brief session at the NCA before the camp begins. Pathan had a brief two hour session at the Academy having both bowling and batting practice under the guidance of Team India Asst Coach and Bio-mechanist Ian Frazer.

After a moral boosting Test series win against the Windies, the Indian team is gearing up for the Lankan tour beginning on August 10.

The left arm medium pacer having a tally of 108 wickets from 63 matches currently has an impressive ODI average of 24.54. In Tests he is nine short of the century mark and has averaged 30.79

The Baroda lad had also made useful contributions with the willow for the country in ODIs in crucial junctures and had scored 858 runs with an average of 26. He had notched up four half centuries with the being 93.

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