Jadeja grinds it out, players have two net session as practice kicks off for Border Gavaskar Trophy

Nagpur, Feb 3 (PTI) Comeback man Ravindra Jadeja bowled a lengthy spell and also batted for a considerable length of time as Indian Test team members had two separate sessions at Old Civil Lines ground here Friday ahead of four Test series against Australia starting February 9.

Jadeja, who was out of action for close to five months after a knee surgery, recently returned back to competitive cricket with a seven wicket haul against Tamil Nadu in a Ranji Trophy match.

During first closed door session, Jadeja bowled and batted for a reasonable time as he would like to add miles to his legs in what could be a very physically demanding Test series than most.

Since most of players save Cheteshwar Pujara, Jaydev Unadkat and Umesh Yadav are coming from white ball games, team think-tank headed by Rahul Dravid wants each and every player to get eugh time during ir five days of practice before commencement of first Test at VCA ground in Jamtha.

re was a two and half hour morning session where one batch came for training while second group came in afteron.

With 16 members plus four net bowlers from fringe-- namely Rahul Chahar (Rajasthan), Washington Sundar, Ravisrinivas Sai Kishore (both TN) and Saurabh Kumar (UP), it is understood that India are preparing to face a lot of spin bowling from Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Swepson and left-arm spinner Ashton Agar.

spinners who had been summoned are those whose state teams are longer in fray for Ranji Trophy semi-final.

presence of four spinners in main squad and ar four makes a total of eight spinners in set-up.

While Shreyas Iyer is missing Test due to back injury, both KL Rahul and Shubman Gill also faced main team bowlers and throwdown in nets.

Unlike team's net session before or international games where re are rmally three nets (including one for throwdown), re was arrangement for only two during day as each player was being allotted eugh time at centre net itself. PTI KHS BS BS