The Indian cricket team is gearing up for their first Test match against Bangladesh at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai starting from September 19. The Men in Blue will look to make the most of the two-match series against the Bangladesh Tigers, who are fresh from a series sweep against Pakistan recently.
Ahead of the opening Test, the Indian players are undergoing intensive training at Chepauk to be prepared for the real action. The same was the case in the third training session on Monday when all 16 players, including Sarfaraz Khan, who joined the team after the second round of the Duleep Trophy, took part in an intense session.
During the session, rising star Yashasvi Jaiswal was seen putting up a lot of fight against the iconic pacer. jasprit bumrahThe speedster beat the left-hander several times, sending his stumps flying for fun. Jaiswal was reportedly having trouble against the senior Indian pro and was unsure of his stump.
Apart from Bumrah, he had problems with net bowlers Simarjeet Singh, Gurnoor Brar and Gurjanpreet Singh in the training session. Master of batting Virat Kohlicaptain Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill and Sarfaraz Khan also batted.
A special field session where Virat’s team won
A field training session was also held and India’s field coach T Dilip spoke about it. “Today, the idea of the session was to bring everyone together for a team exercise with two segments. First, the competition keeping the humidity in mind. We made sure that the volume is less, but the intensity is higher,” Dilip told bcci.tv after the session.
“We divided the teams into two groups and held a competition in catching and the team that made the least errors won. It was Virat’s team that won today. We divided the teams into two groups – the bowlers and all-rounders were divided into two stations, where they took care of catching in the field and in the outfield, along with attacking ground fielding.
“The second group was a standard batting group to catch the ball at the slip cordon and also catch the ball at short leg, dumb point and some reflex. Overall, I think it was a fantastic session, considering the hot sun and the time it takes us to get used to it, but a big advantage of this team is that, across the board, the intensity was top-notch in this weather,” Dilip explained.
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