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It's destination Mysore for the Indian bowlers

Principal Correspondent

Bangalore: It was `Destination Mysore' as the Indian bowlers left the National Cricket Academy premises here on Sunday evening. The bowlers will have an exclusive camp at the Infosys Campus in Mysore from Monday. The five-day camp will conclude on June 8.

When the team bus rolled out of the NCA at 4 p.m. seated inside were trainer Gregory King along with a few bowlers.

Bowling coach Venkatesh Prasad and Anil Kumble had left for Mysore earlier. The rest of them — Ajit Agarkar, Irfan Pathan, Munaf Patel, Rudra Pratap Singh, V.R.V. Singh, Ishant Sharma, Ranadeb Bose, Ramesh Powar, Rajesh Pawar and Pragyan Ojha — left by the team bus.

Rajasthan seamer Pankaj Singh will reach Mysore on Monday morning, while S. Sreesanth will join the camp on June 6 after playing in the Afro-Asia Twenty20 game here on June 5. Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh are skipping the camp since they will be busy with the Afro-Asia Cup matches in Bangalore and Chennai.

The bowling camp also had a last-minute addition — Piyush Chawla — who too left for Mysore in the team bus. The rookie leg-spinner, initially selected for the Border-Gavaskar Scholarship, was all set to leave for Australia by the midnight flight via Singapore on Saturday.

Puzzled Piyush

However, one hour prior to his departure, he was informed by the BCCI to report to the camp at Mysore. A puzzled Piyush cancelled his trip Down Under at the last minute and is now resigned to the fact that he has missed out on the scholarship to train at the Australian Cricket Academy.

The young spinner will be hoping that he at least keeps his place in the Indian team on the flight to England.

The NCA, in consultation with the BCCI, is in the process of substituting Piyush with another player for the Border-Gavaskar Scholarship programme. However, the new player will only get four weeks at the Australian Cricket Academy instead of the regular five weeks.

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