Prioritising the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy starting December 6, the Indian team management has sent batting coach Sanjay Bangar over to Sydney in order to provide adequate training and practice to some of the Test specialists that have travelled down under.

While India kickstart their 2-month long tour on Wednesday, November 21, with the first T20I at Brisbane, Bangar will be seen helping the likes of Prithvi Shaw, Hanuma Vihari, and others, who'll have net sessions in Sydney for the next five days, get accustomed to the conditions.

“Our batting coach Bangar has reached Sydney with one of our throwdown expert Nuwan and a logistics manager. The Test specialists have also arrived from New Zealand. They will train under Bangar ahead of the first class match on November 28,” a BCCI official was quoted saying as per PTI.

The source close to the development further informed, “Both Prithvi and Hanuma are on their first tour of Australia. Till November 25, they would be training under Bangar along with Ajinkya Rahane, Murali Vijay and Parthiv Patel,” and stated, “Ravi (Shastri) is there and with seniors like Virat (Kohli) and Rohit (Sharma) around, it’s only better that Sanjay helps the first timers with inputs about Australian conditions.”

Meanwhile, the other red-ball squad members like Mohammad Shami, Ishant Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja are yet to reach there but it has been confirmed that they will arrive soon and bowlers from grade cricket in New South Wales will help the Test match lot during this period.

“With our second line of pacers in New Zealand and Ranji Trophy on, we felt that we shouldn’t pull out any bowler who are currently playing competitive matches. We have spoken to Cricket Australia and quality net bowlers from New South Wales will be provided,” the official signed off.