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INDvsSL: India toil hard at Eden ahead of Sri Lanka Test

By Saurabh Sharma November 30, -0001 • 00:00 AM View: 2289

Kolkata, Nov 13 (CRICKETNMORE): India's premier off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who was out of international cricket for the past three months, was on Monday seen practising wrong 'uns while skipper Virat Kohli played a lot of bouncers bowled at him with coloured balls during India's first practice session ahead of the three-match Test rubber against Sri Lanka.

Sans Saurashtra players Ravindra Jadeja and Cheteshwar Pujara who played their round five Ranji Trophy match against Gujarat, the entire Indian team sweated it out for nearly two and a half hours in the afternoon.

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