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Indian team arrives in Nagpur
17th Jan 2007  17.31 IST
By Agencies  


The Indian team arrived in Nagpur Tuesday night for the four-day warming up session beginning Wednesday at the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) ground.

The practice session ahead of the first one-day international against West Indies to be played at the VCA ground Jan 21 was insisted upon by chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar.

The players arrived in batches from different places, the first among them being former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly who has recently staged a comeback in the team after being left out in the cold for about a year.

Ganguly flew in from Kolkata whereas Suresh Raina , Joginder Sharma, Rudra Pratap Singh and Gautam Gambhir took a flight from New Delhi.

The next batch to arrive, by an Indian airlines flight from Mumbai, comprised Sachin Tendulkar , Ajit Agarkar , Ramesh Powar , Dinesh Kaarthick and Harbhajan Singh , followed by captain Rahul Dravid , coach Greg Chappell, Yuvraj Singh , Mahendra Dhoni and Zaheer Khan , who took a Jet Airways flight.

The team, which is putting up at Hotel Pride in Nagpur, will have their first session of the informal conditioning camp Wednesday afternoon at the VCA nets.

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