Munaf and Gambhir in Asia Cup probables

Munaf Patel and Gautam Gambhir have a chance to press for higher honours when the Indian team congregates in Bangalore from July 3 onwards for a conditioning camp ahead of the Asia Cup. The Board of Control for Cricket in India announced a list of 23 cricketers who will train at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

The squad also includes Rohan Gavaskar, Amit Bhandari and Sairaj Bahutule, in addition to the squad that recently won a historic series in Pakistan. Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh, who have missed out recently on account of injury are also back in action.

The BCCI also announced that an additional physical fitness camp for mediumpacers will be held from June 7 to 12. The squad for this camp includes mediumpacers already playing for India and draws from a wider country-wide pool to bolster bench strength.

Asia Cup training camp Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammed Kaif, Parthiv Patel, Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, Murali Kartik, Ramesh Powar, Aakash Chopra, Hemang Badani, Sairaj Bahutule, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Ajit Agarkar, Irfan Pathan, L Balaji, Munaf Patel, Amit Bhandari, Rohan Gavaskar and Gautam Gambhir.

Mediumpacers for fitness camp Ashish Nehra, Ajit Agarkar, Irfan Pathan, L Balaji, Amit Bhandari, Munaf Patel, Avishkar Salvi, Srishanth, S S Paul, S Mathur, S Trivedi, N C Aiyappa, Gagandeep Singh, Jogender Sharma, Mohammed Faizal and T Kumaran.