29 players called for fitness camps

The Board of Control for Cricket in India [ Images ] has called 14 bowlers and 15 batsmen for training camps, to be held next month in Mysore and Bangalore, ahead of selecting the team for the Ireland and England [ Images ] tours.

The bowlers' camp will be held from June 4 to 8 at the Infosys [ Get Quote ] Campus in Mysore and the batsmen's camp from June 9 to 12 at the National Cricket Academy.

These camps would be followed by a conditioning camp for the players selected for Ireland and England tours (on June 12) at the NCA from June 13-16, a BCCI statement said.

Among those selected for the batsmen's camp is Mohd Kaif, largely out of favour with the selectors recently, while Harbhajan Singh [ Images ], Ajit Agarkar [ Images ] and Irfan Pathan [ Images ], ignored for the Bangladesh tour, have got the nod for the bowlers' camp.

Selected players for the two camps:

Bowlers' camp (June 4-8 at Mysore): Zaheer Khan [ Images ], Rudra Pratap Singh, V R V Singh, Ishant Sharma [ Images ], S Sreesanth [ Images ], Ajit Agarkar, Irfan Pathan, Ranadeb Bose, Munaf Patel [ Images ], Anil Kumble [ Images ], Ramesh Powar [ Images ], Rajesh Pawar, Harbhajan Singh and Pragyan Oza.

Leg spinner Piyush Chawla [ Images ] and medium pacer V Yo Mahesh have not been included in the bowlers' camp as they would be leaving for training at the Australian Cricket Academy on June 2.

Batsmen's camp (June 9-12 at Bangalore): Rahul Dravid [ Images ], Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ], Sourav Ganguly [ Images ], Wasim Jaffer [ Images ], V V S Laxman [ Images ], Gautam Gambhir [ Images ], Robin Uthappa [ Images ], Virender Sehwag [ Images ], Dinesh Mongia, M S Dhoni [ Images ], Dinesh Kartik, Rohit Sharma [ Images ], Mohd Kaif, S Badrinath and Yuvraj Singh [ Images ].