Sports India

India’s top cricketers will assemble in Bangalore on Tuesday for a week-long conditioning camp to prepare for the upcoming tri-series in Sri Lanka.

Apart from the 15-member squad announced for the series, few more players like Laxmipathy Balaji, Murali Karthik and V V S Laxman have also been called for the camp that would conclude on August 1.

Medium pacer Irfan Pathan, who has been training at the National Cricket Academy for the last two days, was joined by Suresh Raina on Monday and both had a practice session.

Team’s bio-mechanist Ian Frazer and trainer Gregory Allen King have already arrived here to guide the cricketers and oversee the camp.

The fitness camp would be followed by a cricket skills camp from August 6 to 10.

Besides hosts Sri Lanka and India, South Africa is the third team taking part in the tri-series to be staged from August 14 to 29.