Colombo, Sep.13: The Indian cricket team held its first practice session in Colombo after reaching Sri Lanka ahead of the ICC World Twenty20 on Thursday.
The Indian squad, including star batsman Yuvraj Singh trained under coach Duncan Fletcher.
Yuvraj, who played a major role in putting the T20 format on the world map when he blasted six sixes in one over off England''s Stuart Broad during the inaugural World Cup in South Africa in 2007, is back in the Indian team after fighting a rare germ cell cancer.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Indian cricket team arrived here for the ICC World Twenty20, which kicks off on September 18.
India''s squad for the ICC World Twenty20 includes Mahendra Singh Dhoni as captain, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Zaheer Khan, L. Balaji, Ashok Dinda, Rohit Sharma, Piyush Chawla, Harbhajan Singh and Manoj Tiwary.
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