Sachin Tendulkar is set to miss the first two days of the four-day fitness-specific cricket camp for batsmen that got underway in Bangalore on Saturday.
"Tendulkar will arrive tomorrow [Sunday] evening and will attend the camp from Monday. He has already secured permission from the Board," said camp co-ordinator Ramesh Rao after the opening day's indoor session.
Also missing from the first day's action at the National Cricket Academy was Tendulkar's Mumbai mate and India Test opener Wasim Jaffer, who is down with viral fever.
The four batsmen doing duty for the Asia XI against Africa XI at Chennai in the Afro-Asia Cup ODI series -- Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni -- would also join the camp on Monday.
The nine batsmen called for the camp, including India captain Rahul Dravid, and pace bowler S Sreesanth went through fitness training and core and shoulder stability exercises.
"The players did some yoga in the morning and then underwent beep test, did some vertical jumps and workouts in the gymnasium," Rao said, adding a swimming session at the team hotel is scheduled in the evening.
"Sreesanth will be here tomorrow also and then would leave the camp. He has been asked to be here in the batsmen's camp as he could not attend the first two days' of the bowlers' camp held at Mysore," Rao said.
The Kerala pacer missed part of the June 4-8 bowlers' camp to play an Afro-Asia Cup Twenty20 tie.
Physical trainer Gregory King is overseeing the camp conducted ahead of the team's tour of Ireland and England.
Also present is Indian team's fielding coach Robin Singh.
"The players would do fitness training outdoors too from tomorrow afternoon," Rao added.
Players who attended the camp today were captain Rahul Dravid, V V S Laxman, Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Dinesh Mongia, Dinesh Karthik, Rohit Sharma, Mohammad Kaif, S Badrinath and Sreesanth.
