India target World Cup with ideas camp by CricketArchive Staff Reporter

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V Sehwag

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DateLine: 31st August 2006

 

Indian vice-captain Virender Sehwag said his team’s preparations for next year’s World Cup in the West Indies have begun in earnest with a novel training camp.

 

India coach Greg Chappell launched the week-long rolling camp on Wednesday by calling up just five of the squad's 16 players for action on the first two days. The remaining players will be split in two further groups to enable the coach to devote personal attention to each cricketer.

 

“The previous camps focused on physical conditioning and mental toughness, but this is an ideas camp,” said Sehwag. “It’s important to take ideas from everybody. Many times only the captain, vice-captain and the coach hold discussions, but other players also have good ideas.”

 

Sehwag said different ideas would be put together and tried out during warm-up games at Chennai on September 8 and 9 before the team's departure for Malaysia for a tri-series against Australia and the West Indies that will be played in Kuala Lumpur from September 12 to 24.